"Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' âˆ’ the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist."

-- Jan Murray

#Dance Quotes #Moving Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.”
“Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.”
“The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.”
“I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I donâ€™t know what to feed it.”
“I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.”
“Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.”
“It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.179, Transaction Publishers
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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