Alvin Ailey Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Men will shop, but they only shop when they need something. Women shop with passion and because it's enjoyable, and for some, it's even entertainment. All you have to do is step into a mall and see how many stores are geared towards men and how many are geared towards women, and you'll get the picture.
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One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
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In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
