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- ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is…
- I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
- In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
- All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a…
- The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes…
- There is only one you in all time.
- We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all…
- You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety…
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of…
- Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a…
- Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
- All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed…
- I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,…
- People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that,…
- Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
- The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the…
- I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
- A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as…
- There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle