Agnes de Mille Quotes
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.
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I don't want to be an opinion anchor.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
