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.

Ted Shawn

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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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• 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.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Voice

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Couple
  • Stage
  • Ego

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Always

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  

  Babatunde Olatunji
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Purpose

• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee

• For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Children
  • Money

• I think Black Nativity movie has a very clear message. It's about a family in crisis facing some of the very familiar struggles we face in our communities. It's really about love, redemption, forgiveness, faith and family, the things that have gotten us through so many hard times, and that continue to get us through them. When times are hard, we need each other.

  

  Kasi Lemmons
  • Family
  • Message
  • Black Nativity

• I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Words