"In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept."

“All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!”

“If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.”

“In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.”

“Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.”

Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

“The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.”

Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.15, Penguin

“There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.”

“I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”