Judith Jamison Quotes

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Judith Jamison

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Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

Jill Lepore

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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

John Archibald Wheeler

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If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.

Max Holloway

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No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

Stan Brakhage

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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

Tom Shadyac

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I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

Robert Wilson

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It's nice to be recognized, but at the same time, there are always consequences. You may get fame, but you lose anonymity. You lose a certain sense of who you are.

Mike Colter

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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Dee Hock

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To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

Anzia Yezierska

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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Anne Wojcicki

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