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

Quotes to Explore
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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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.
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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.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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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.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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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.
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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.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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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.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
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What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.
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With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
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Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.