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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Meeting up with Paris and Paris was such a highlight in Greece. Dancing at the clubs was a blast. There are just certain people you know you'll always have fun with, and Paris Hilton is definitely one of those people.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

My first dance ever on 'Dancing With the Stars' was to 'Let's Hear it for the Boy.'

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

My motto - sans limites.

My muse must come to me on union time.

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Nobody is born a dancer.

No sober person dances.

No sane man will dance.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!