"The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep."

-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Dance Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.”
“Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.”
“Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.”
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”
“Screw it, just do it!”
“How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.”
“Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
“No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...”

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