"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other."
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"A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well."
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"I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest."
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"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing."
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"Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work.""
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"A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line."
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"Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof."
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"What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it."
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"To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard."
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"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows."
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"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless."
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"Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth"
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"Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you."
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"At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!"
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"A Nation's character is typified by its dancers."
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"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
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"Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea."
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"It's better to dance than to march through life."
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"I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing."
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"Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted."
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