People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.
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Related I don't want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me... JOHN TRUDELL It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.'... SUSAN CHOI Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remem... LAURA INGALLS WILDER Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which t... JOHN RALSTON SAUL I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I... WALE When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had ... JERRY LEE LEWIS I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotlan... SAM HEUGHAN I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t... CAROLINE KENNEDY I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei... ANDY BIERSACK I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many ... MERYL STREEP I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said ... MARK VALLEY What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they t... AL STEWART It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting... JON KATZ We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don... JACKSON BROWNE I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with a... LAUREN BACALL I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big... B. B. KING There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, b... ADAM SILVERA I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are intere... KATHERINE JENKINS Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the... ANAT COHEN Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don... DARIUS RUCKER My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I cou... BARRY MCGUIRE It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by se... SPIKE MILLIGAN I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first k... MAUREEN O'HARA I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don&... DAMON LINDELOF I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando... LISA LING I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking a... ZACK GREINKE I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my b... STEVE CROPPER I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... SHANNON LUCID If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that.... HUGH JACKMAN People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me s... RAFAEL DOS ANJOS I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife a... DR. DRE I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't l... DONALD TRUMP I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever... ANTHONY HOPKINS Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good ... BOB HARPER People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Be... RICK BARRY No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, bu... TIM DALY I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My inno... CARINE ROITFELD I remember they used to tell me, they said, 'Khaled, you can't get a Rolls-Royce; you need t... DJ KHALED You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem... JEFF FOXWORTHY Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those peo... ALAN FURST My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and del... KATY PERRY I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That'... DANIELLE STEEL If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa... VANESSA HUDGENS I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my firs... WOODY HARRELSON Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f... LAMAR ALEXANDER My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me t... RACHEL KELLER Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people ca... MARILYN MONROE It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me. RAFAEL DOS ANJOS I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all rig... EUBIE BLAKE I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc... JACKIE EVANCHO I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember... KATEE SACKHOFF Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control... CHRISTY TURLINGTON I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I&... LIL REL HOWERY I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I... GARTH BROOKS I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I w... KARRINE STEFFANS I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for... AUDRA MCDONALD I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. SACHIN TENDULKAR I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they sa... PAUL KANE I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how bea... EDWARD HERRMANN My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that... AARON LAZAR There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under... SOREN KIERKEGAARD If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never... FAIRUZA BALK I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubb... ZAHA HADID I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would... EMINEM I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the... TOMMY LASORDA They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do... PARKER POSEY There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started? ZSA ZSA GABOR There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I g... OTIS BLACKWELL I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess... ELLIOTT ABRAMS I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to... JOE ARPAIO I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND I've never shown up to the set of 'SNL' or 'Girls' without having a million opti... AIDY BRYANT Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k... IKE TURNER I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn&... WARIS AHLUWALIA Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I... ANNA NICOLE SMITH I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thoug... PATRICIA MCBRIDE People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn... ELIZABETH DEBICKI I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per... BARBARA LYNN My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my... JACK PRELUTSKY When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it... IRRFAN KHAN I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't... CHARISMA CARPENTER I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew u... HERSCHEL WALKER I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparen... DANIEL S. LOEB I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high fo... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX
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I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ... JUDITH JAMISON The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'... JUDITH JAMISON Dance is about never-ending aspiration. JUDITH JAMISON We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?... JUDITH JAMISON As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y... JUDITH JAMISON I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class... JUDITH JAMISON Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ... JUDITH JAMISON I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not... JUDITH JAMISON I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed. 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JUDITH JAMISON The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du... LESLIE JAMISON Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the san... KALEEL JAMISON Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do... LESLIE JAMISON Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings... LESLIE JAMISON I don't see myself as a guy coming off the bench. But we won tonight, so even though I was coming of... ANTAWN JAMISON I know a lot of people will say we're in the entertainment industry, but we represent franchises tha... ANTAWN JAMISON If we had lost this kind of game about a month or two ago, this room would have been awful. This is ... ANTAWN JAMISON We know what Juan is capable of doing when he starts to feel it. We know he is going to be in the mi... 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JUDITH VIORST Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few... JUDITH ROSSNER But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned w... JUDITH VIORST Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ... JUDITH BUTLER 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe... JUDITH MARTIN There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. JUDITH ANDERSON Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I... JUDITH ROSSNER Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers m... JUDITH MARTIN Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a h... JUDITH VIORST Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and... JUDITH GUEST A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmorelan... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Here is the same clock that walked quietly Through those enormous years I half recall, When b... JUDITH WRIGHT If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universit... JUDITH MARTIN It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It ... JUDITH ROSSNER One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with y... JUDITH VIORST One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls ... JUDITH VIORST You end up as you deserve. 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JUDITH MARTIN A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads. JUDITH BROCKLEHURST I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn... JUDITH VIORST You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ... JUDITH BUTLER We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ... JUDITH WRIGHT You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people. JUDITH LIGHT Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socia... JUDITH WRIGHT Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki... JUDITH VIORST Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. JUDITH BUTLER When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting ... JUDITH BUTLER It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom a... JUDITH BUTLER There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constitut... JUDITH BUTLER Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, reveal... JUDITH KRANTZ I really love being finance director. JUDITH MCKENNA I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to ... JUDITH HILL A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues... JUDITH RODIN Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock... JUDITH VIORST Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any othe... JUDITH LIGHT The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying ... JUDITH LIGHT I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety fr... JUDITH BUTLER One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or so... JUDITH MARTIN Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery JUDITH MCNAUGHT To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative me... JUDITH BUTLER When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can ful... JUDITH WRIGHT The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawn... JUDITH BUTLER Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expres... JUDITH WRIGHT I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware ... JUDITH WRIGHT My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. ... JUDITH VIORST When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that d... JUDITH BUTLER Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then e... JUDITH VIORST Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled... JUDITH VIORST Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k... JUDITH VIORST I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'... JUDITH VIORST My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on... JUDITH VIORST