Laurieann Gibson Quotes

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

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• I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Turning

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Man
  • Desire

• Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Free
  • Comfortable

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Music
  • They Say

• For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The thing I like to do most is shop.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Like
  • Most
  • Shop

• Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

  

  Ma Jun
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Long
  • Power
  • Day

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Nails

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Weird

• Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Quality
  • Teacher

• The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Giving
  • Quality
  • Failing

• Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Memories

• For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

  

  Laurieann Gibson