"The abuse of the best things is always detrimental."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

#Ballet Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.”
“Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.”
“The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.”
“I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.”
“Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”

Source : Broadcast from London on March 06, 1934. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 21, 1935.
“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”
“It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!”

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