"The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

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“At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.”

Source : "INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2012.
“Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.”
“I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.”

Source : "An uncommon eye for common places / When reality presents itself to Henry Wessel, his 'soft eyes' are available to capture -- and elevate -- the moment". Interview with Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2007.
“Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.”
“I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.”
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic andÂ glamorousÂ and that youÂ wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”
“My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.”
“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.”

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