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Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, bu...
SAVION GLOVER

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.
SAVION GLOVER

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!
SAVION GLOVER

There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual...
SAVION GLOVER

Frank Sinatra changed people's approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they...
SAVION GLOVER

I actually wanted to be a fireman when I was younger.
SAVION GLOVER

I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mike isn't in the ri...
SAVION GLOVER

What does genius mean? God has put us here specifically... every person has a job or journey to do. ...
SAVION GLOVER

Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the cr...
SAVION GLOVER

The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into...
SAVION GLOVER

Movie making is such a long process, and they only use that one take, although you do it over and ov...
SAVION GLOVER

I come from a long line of people who express themselves through the dance. I come from a long line ...
SAVION GLOVER

I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, bu...
SAVION GLOVER

I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven'...
SAVION GLOVER

My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and mo...
SAVION GLOVER

I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every...
SAVION GLOVER

La Cave was a great platform for me to learn and be able to listen in on conversations and just get ...
SAVION GLOVER

There's a tendency to think tap's had its day, but 'Happy Feet' kept us in the race....
SAVION GLOVER

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.
SAVION GLOVER

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.
SAVION GLOVER

I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these ...
SAVION GLOVER

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high ...
DANNY GLOVER

When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I&...
JOHN GLOVER

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge...
CANDICE GLOVER

I'm such a perfectionist.
CANDICE GLOVER

I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career ...
CANDICE GLOVER

In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, ...
CANDICE GLOVER

It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and thin...
CANDICE GLOVER

My main focus is to help people through music.
CANDICE GLOVER

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, s...
CANDICE GLOVER

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat...
DANNY GLOVER

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being ce...
DONALD GLOVER

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. L...
DANNY GLOVER

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its mone...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semes...
DANNY GLOVER

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
DONALD GLOVER

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses u...
DONALD GLOVER

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cine...
CRISPIN GLOVER

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you'...
CRISPIN GLOVER

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more ...
CRISPIN GLOVER

What you've done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If we're only going to govern by ...
DANNY GLOVER

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or it's bin Laden.
DANNY GLOVER

It was feast or famine. I just hit a lot of greens, made a few putts and then made a bunker shot on ...
LUCAS GLOVER

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the ...
DANNY GLOVER

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I fi...
CRISPIN GLOVER

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Th...
CRISPIN GLOVER

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic gr...
DANNY GLOVER

This guy is a historian,
LA'ROI GLOVER

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But ev...
DONALD GLOVER

In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of t...
JOHN GLOVER

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at l...
BRUCE GLOVER

Moreover, one cannot escape the thought that the risks taken by Londoners have increased as a result...
STEPHEN GLOVER

[Glover's column noted that many reporters know where Blair is but that] Downing Street has strongly...
STEPHEN GLOVER

That takes Dixon out of my district. That's a relief. That's one less (school) out of my 20 (schools...
CHARLES GLOVER

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's ...
JOHN GLOVER

Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but t...
JONATHAN GLOVER

When You find that person you call your truest friend, know that at that moment you are the luckiest...
LAVESA GLOVER

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all thes...
JOHN GLOVER

You can connect with friends you may have lost touch with.
ASHLEY GLOVER

One of our core values is community. We felt that this program would also give something back to the...
BARRY GLOVER

It has kind of blossomed. It has blossomed into a bigger thing than I ever imagined it would be.
JEFF GLOVER

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
DANNY GLOVER

It's one of the classic works of this period. The novel itself stands up on its own, and as a result...
DANNY GLOVER

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
JOHN GLOVER

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.
JERRY GLOVER

Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so...
DANNY GLOVER

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a r...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from chil...
CRISPIN GLOVER

They always define it as coming out of the closet, but I don't consider myself to be out of the clos...
DERRICK GLOVER

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, ...
CRISPIN GLOVER

Band isn't something you do as a hobby, but merely a way of life. What you do in the band dictates t...
DANNY GLOVER

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
DANNY GLOVER

It's originally a mathematical term, ... Something that veers off the line is eccentric, not concent...
CRISPIN GLOVER

I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails,...
CRISPIN GLOVER

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that...
CRISPIN GLOVER

The breaking point was to stand outside on 116th Street and have five cabs pass me up.
DANNY GLOVER

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meanin...
CRISPIN GLOVER

It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African...
DANNY GLOVER

I decided to be an idiot and go at the left side of the green and try to hit it close. I hit it in t...
LUCAS GLOVER

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open ...
JOHN GLOVER

I read Fanon when I was 20, and his writings moved me, ... It's very important for me to be involved...
DANNY GLOVER

I read Fanon when I was 20, and his writings moved me. It's very important for me to be involved in ...
DANNY GLOVER

She alone has stood up for issues that are important to this country and important to the world. We'...
DANNY GLOVER

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this...
CRISPIN GLOVER

If I judge a character, I'm defeating the purpose.
DANNY GLOVER

In all my years in theater, I have never been involved in anything as extraordinary as this. We didn...
JULIAN GLOVER

In all my years in theater, I have never been involved in anything as extraordinary as this.
JULIAN GLOVER

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about th...
DANNY GLOVER

Playing opposite her was just a dance in sharing -- a beautiful dance in sharing, ... We were like s...
DANNY GLOVER

We're not coping very well at all. The fact that it was during Christmastime is very hard.
MICHAEL GLOVER

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a f...
CRISPIN GLOVER

He took exception to that, and he's right, ... This is culture. What is counterculture is 'The Anna ...
CRISPIN GLOVER

A teacher appears--for whom no one was prepared, and whom no one could have expected. The argument f...
T.R. GLOVER

Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, ... Originally this was going to be a short film ...
CRISPIN GLOVER

Yes because it is always a bit nerve wracking when you lay something out there that is meaningful to...
CRISPIN GLOVER

Yes, Bush is racist. We all knew that, but the world is only finding it out now.
DANNY GLOVER

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.
DANNY GLOVER

When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country … it revealed one...
DANNY GLOVER

The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the lin...
JONATHAN GLOVER

Some are applauding the superintendent for his initiative, and others are against it.
CHARLES GLOVER

There should have been preventive measures implemented at the schools when they first saw them going...
CHARLES GLOVER

We are hoping the schools will show significant improvements.
CHARLES GLOVER

Unless we are of one accord, we are just beating the bushes coming to these meetings and accomplishi...
CHARLES GLOVER

Any monies that come in will be helpful and needful. Right now, there are more questions than answer...
CHARLES GLOVER

Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the ...
JONATHAN GLOVER

I don't think we've seen that kind of speed at all this year. A couple quick players, but not team s...
SKIP GLOVER

Those two guys are very unique in that they can shuffle in at nine different positions and produce. ...
JOHN GLOVER

Those who actually dropped the bombs were less responsible than the people who took the decisions hi...
JONATHAN GLOVER

The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the...
JONATHAN GLOVER

In 1969 the Khmer Rouge numbered only about 4,000. By 1975 their numbers were enough to defeat the g...
JONATHAN GLOVER

You have all the shine you ever need. Don't let people say you don't.
DONALD GLOVER

I don't really want to do it.
DERRICK GLOVER

I never had any intention of leaving the cowboy lifestyle. Ranching is who I am.
DERRICK GLOVER

That could have been my life.
DERRICK GLOVER

I try to be me to the utmost.
DONALD GLOVER

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
DANNY GLOVER

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
DONALD GLOVER

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our su...
DANNY GLOVER

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write musi...
DONALD GLOVER

They're going to see how well other teams swim, other people swim. They can only get stronger from s...
DANIEL GLOVER

We all get loose, relax a bit more, since we're around friends. Taking the team down to state, even ...
DANIEL GLOVER

We knew everybody needed to swim well to finish out so the team could win. We couldn't win without e...
DANIEL GLOVER

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are ca...
DONALD GLOVER

It's coming from a lot of different guys, too,
LA'ROI GLOVER

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of th...
DONALD GLOVER

They were enormous for me, you can't imagine how enormous, ... Those are the people that kind of pul...
DANNY GLOVER

When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country it revealed one.
DANNY GLOVER

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of tha...
DONALD GLOVER

I feel if I make the cut I will play well on Saturday and Sunday,
LUCAS GLOVER

Yes because it is always a bit nerve wracking when you lay something out there that is meaningful to...
CRISPIN GLOVER

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistanc...
DANNY GLOVER

Please pass this budget on the grounds that we can't afford to do any less.
FRED GLOVER

Our area is very diversified and is growing. Interest rates are still low, and demand is there.
FRED GLOVER

We think Tallahassee's a good market. It has two major universities and is the seat of government as...
GEORGE GLOVER

We're excited about entering the Tallahassee market with this prime location. It is just a little ov...
GEORGE GLOVER

We expect to meet the market's need for a medium-priced business hotel.
GEORGE GLOVER

I grew up in Largo and started working at 12 at my father's theater (the Largo Theatre), two blocks ...
GEORGE GLOVER

A lot comes down to the financial side of things. I definitely want to come back and play in the Sta...
GARY GLOVER

It's tough to get a read on them, because I'll get ahead 0 and 2, and throw a fastball up and in and...
GARY GLOVER

You don't ever see any trash on the ground, and everyone picks up after themselves. In a way, it rem...
GARY GLOVER

The guaranteed aspect was the eye-catching part. They really made me feel wanted.
GARY GLOVER

There's just so many people. I've never seen so many people in one place in my life.
GARY GLOVER

It's hard coming in off a game like last night.
GARY GLOVER

It smelled pretty bad. They were losing a lot of members that way. Some would bring doctors' excuses...
DUKE GLOVER

The day it opened, they auctioned off all the horses.
DUKE GLOVER

It's outlived its usefulness. It would make a nice museum.
DUKE GLOVER

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place a...
BRUCE GLOVER

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.
BRUCE GLOVER

Just getting there is a comfort because I feel like I'm kind of a closer.
LUCAS GLOVER

I had that stretch in the spring where everything was going right but then in the summer my swing go...
LUCAS GLOVER

If I knew why that was, I'd fix it,
LUCAS GLOVER

It's been feast or famine this year.
LUCAS GLOVER

You can't be disappointed with a 65 around here. This is a major type course you know everyone is go...
LUCAS GLOVER

I came in thinking this is more of a major course and everybody is going to have some foulups, so ju...
LUCAS GLOVER

I had a couple of chances late and didn't make the putts, but you can't be disappointed with 65 arou...
LUCAS GLOVER

I could have gone somewhere with singing if I had wanted to, but why go to 'American Idol' when you ...
LAVESA GLOVER

The amount of minutes I played today made me feel that I can play longer than I've been able to. It'...
LAVESA GLOVER

I had a difficult start to the season, missing bunnies, defensive errors and such. You can have the ...
LAVESA GLOVER

It's a tragedy that their friend Tom Fox was murdered and is not with them today.
LISA GLOVER

I never thought about being an actor.
DANNY GLOVER

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the th...
DANNY GLOVER

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the h...
DANNY GLOVER

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
DANNY GLOVER

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progre...
DANNY GLOVER

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island natio...
DANNY GLOVER

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to ...
DANNY GLOVER

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
DANNY GLOVER

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituali...
DANNY GLOVER

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
DANNY GLOVER

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
DANNY GLOVER

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
DANNY GLOVER

We believe there are property owners who come to Citizens because of price.
JUSTIN GLOVER

Those are some significant losses.
JUSTIN GLOVER

These figures confirm our fears that Hurricane Wilma losses could be tremendous.
JUSTIN GLOVER

We believe (the increases) are needed to allow Citizens to continue to pay for future hurricane clai...
JUSTIN GLOVER

We have to focus on paying the claims and looking at the sources we have to do that.
JUSTIN GLOVER

It's over and above the assessment, you're right. The goal is to treat all policyholders in the stat...
JUSTIN GLOVER

Had the consumer had a claim during the mix-up, they would be covered after we found out about the e...
JUSTIN GLOVER

In the case of the customer you brought to our attention we received the check but our computer auto...
JUSTIN GLOVER

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anyth...
JULIAN GLOVER

I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war.
JULIAN GLOVER

Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humil...
JONATHAN GLOVER

The jury is still out about what social conservatives think of George Allen.
JOE GLOVER

In my view, the standardized tests we'd want to distribute on a national level simply do not exist.
JOE GLOVER

Drop in a book by Salman Rushdie or another critic alongside it -- give the students an opportunity ...
JOE GLOVER

We had hoped the university would see the error of its ways and correct this wrong without going to ...
JOE GLOVER

We poured a record amount of money into hiring additional faculty, ... The academic infrastructure h...
JOE GLOVER

The common thread, apart from the opposition to the requirement itself, ... was every one of them wa...
JOE GLOVER

pitted students with religious views contrary to Islam against fellow students, faculty and members ...
JOE GLOVER

It is so the community knows they don't have to go to Barrett (Parkway) or Gwinnet County, or wherev...
JEFF GLOVER

A lot of the charities come to us and then we feel and decide what we want to do and distribute the ...
JEFF GLOVER

I think we need to focus on the basics, not the marquee names and causes. Just saying 'thank you' an...
MICHAEL GLOVER

On a personal note, my dad died the same year that Dr. King was killed. I was only eight years old a...
MICHAEL GLOVER

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
DONALD GLOVER

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed ...
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA

R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be m...
CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
SIR JAMES GLOVER

We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same diffi...
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA

Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book.....
T. R. GLOVER

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

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I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

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