Dana Tai Soon Burgess Quotes
A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
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I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now. As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.
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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
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I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.
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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.
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I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
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When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.
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Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.
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The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.
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A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.
