Gregory Hines Quotes

My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.

Gregory Hines

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1946 - August 9, 2003

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It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

Jim Jarmusch

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After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.

Joe Gebbia

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Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

Robert Rodriguez

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I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

Steve Aoki

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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

Tom Chatfield

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I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

Misty Copeland

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I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left school and went back to jazz.

Lizz Wright

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The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.

Jay Parini

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Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Josh Tillman

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Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Peter Farrelly

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The expression of divinity is in variety.

Sheri S. Tepper

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There's no understandable reason why the financial services industry has not developed a more comprehensive sharing of the value chain.

Sergio Ermotti

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