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George Chakiris Quotes

If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.

George Chakiris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1934

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Win Story Name Loss You Feelings

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

Think Key Important Young Special

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

Ten Years Now Right Years May Ten

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

John C. Calhoun

Great Government Accountability Debt

I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Sports Dance Loved Know Why Actor

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

Smile Face Dream Young Living See

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Sonia Sotomayor

Experience Make A Difference Gender

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

Women Children Difficult May Get

As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.

Me Hurt Look Professional Out

I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

Me Impact Bicycle You Same Without

My mother made the courageous decision to flee a tyrannized Cuba in the 1950s and bring her children to the United States, where I was born.

Mother Children Decision Born Cuba

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Hope Striving Achieving Anything

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

Business Budget Said Done Now Kind

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