Clive Barnes Quotes

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

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DanceRoyalDancingThingsMatch

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.

John C. Calhoun

WarThoughtImportantMoreMexico

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

Maya Angelou

HellSomeoneBadPersonSayShe

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

PeopleDesireGreatestSandboxKevin

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

Steve Blank

LifeLiveReflectionPeopleHands

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

Ry Cooder

FuturePastSongYouPredictDrag

Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.

Mary H.K. Choi

Wake UpMoodNothingWayRageOut

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

ChildrenWorldYouPlaceHandTaxes

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

Syd

HouseConnectedBedroomLivedBig

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Tia Carrere

HistoryWantedPartDisney

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Rick Rubin

Looking BackControlLookingYouSay

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Trumka

MoneyPeopleMeDemocracyWinLook

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

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