Misty Copeland Quotes

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Misty Copeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1982

Topics

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I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

Andrew Stanton

MyselfThinkingGoMeanAnything

Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

John Paulson

GoldPoliticalAlwaysSafeAgainst

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

I AmBecauseAfricanAm

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Tracy Morgan

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I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of your background, if someone has a house, that means you can always come back home. When you don't have that, it's like there isn't anywhere to stand, so you have to keep jumping.

Michaela Coel

FamilyHomeStandSomeoneYouHouse

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

PeopleYouKnowNeverArtsWell

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

Jason Segel

WomenPeopleMeViewYouWant

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Dinesh D'Souza

FaithReasonAlwaysChristianity

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.

Doug LaMalfa

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I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Chris Evert

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I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.

David Small

LoveGreatWordsThoughtsLanguage

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.

Claudia Black

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