"I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates."

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Source : "What's the Best Way To Impress a Guy? Dancing with the Stars' Sexy Maksim Chmerkovskiy Spills the Secret!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

Gene Kelly

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“Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.”
“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.”

Source : Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper
“Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fanÂtasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.”
“By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.”

Source : "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.
“Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden”
“I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.”
“Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.”
“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”

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