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I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.

I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.

I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Let's face the music and dance.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Life's a dance you learn as you go.

Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

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.

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.