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Agnes de Mille Quotes

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Agnes de Mille

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 18, 1905 - October 7, 1993

Topics

Love Friend Mirror Practice You

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Joe Klein

Inspirational Someone Presidency Most

I am a creature of habit.

Jennifer Aniston

Habit I Am Creature Am

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.

Steven Gerrard

Born Liverpool Supporter

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

Legal Corruption You Capture Never

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

Rose Namajunas

Time Fight You Go Your Fighters

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

Life Death Saying Hands Easy You

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Dixie Lee Ray

Confidence People Common Sense Sense

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Light School Fun Night High School

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

Christina Aguilera

Best Listening Understanding Artist

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

Wynton Marsalis

Music Time Art Achievement Past

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Pierre Corneille

Happiness Sad Perfection Sadness Our

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Richard P. Feynman

Science Effort Always Been Almost