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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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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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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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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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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The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.
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When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.
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I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.
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The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
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A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.
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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.
