"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."

-- George Balanchine

#Dance Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1840). “The Works: Accurately Printed from the Last Original Editions with Critical Notes and a Sketch of His Life”, p.194
“All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.”
“a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.”

Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”
“Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it”
“One of the things I say to women a lot, specifically when Democrat women say to me, shouldn't there be a quota for this? Or shouldn't women have a certain amount of seats at this table? I don't ever want to be given a position because I was a woman. I want to be given a position because I was the most qualified person to hold that job.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”
“We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.”
“I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.”

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