Alvin Ailey Quotes

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Alvin Ailey

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Woman

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Different
  • Best
  • Golf

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Artist
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Face

• As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Single

• The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Perfect

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • People
  • Black
  • Marketing