Curt Sachs Quotes

Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

Curt Sachs

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• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

  

  Peter Hargreaves

• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Black
  • Religious

• The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • World
  • Joy
  • Instrument

• Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Citizens

• I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Please

• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Effort

• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Court
  • Hostility

• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowing, blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Night
  • Day
  • Eyes

• Niggas know my pussy taste like mango-tango so they put a couple karats in my ankle bangles

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Tango

• You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Dancing
  • Raises
  • Tango

• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  

  Carlos Gavito
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • Mean
  • Honest

• When the last thousand years, when India lived a life of shame, humiliation and stagnation, other parts of the world experienced not less than three revolutions, making three successive stages of human progress. India also must make that experience, if she is to come abreast with the advanced members of the human family. Should that take a thousand years, others would, during that time, march much farther ahead, and the process of human progress accelerates in proportion to its advance. So in order to catch up with the time lost, India must live in a few years the life lived by others over a period of thousand years.

  

  M. N. Roy
  • Time
  • Lost
  • India

• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Tango
  • Qualities
  • Dance Talents