"Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?"
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"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
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"Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity."
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"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
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"No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
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"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
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"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
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"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."
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"Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow."
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"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart."
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"Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability."
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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
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"As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out."
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"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."
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"It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt"
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