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"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."
"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us."
"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion."
"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love."
"Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe."
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