Ted Shawn Quotes
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Texas is where I found my musical self.
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
