"Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America."

-- Martha Graham

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“I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.”
“You want a love story too? There's none to be had.”
“Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day”
“It’s one thing to see yourself going across the ticker…But to take someone else down, that’s another. I really can’t even explain that pain.”
“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.”
“By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. Thereâ€™s no specific line, as you know.”
“People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.”
“The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.”

Source : "Live From..." with Betty Nguyen, edition.cnn.com. February 21, 2006.

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