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Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way
— Judith Jamison
I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
— Judith Jamison
You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.
— Judith Jamison
I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.
— Ashley Tisdale
I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.
— Judith Jamison
Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
— Judith Jamison
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.
— Floyd E. Bloom
You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Excellence is the name of the game ...
— Judith Jamison
Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
— Judith Jamison
I walk slowly, but never backwards.
— Abraham Lincoln
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
— Judith Jamison
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
— Judith Jamison
Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.
— Judith Jamison
Help others get ahead. you will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
— Bob Moawad
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
— Judith Jamison
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
— Nacho Figueras
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
— Judith Jamison
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
— Judith Jamison
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
— Judith Jamison
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
— Judith Jamison
I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.
— Judith Jamison
One you have danced, you always dance.
— Judith Jamison
If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'
— Judith Jamison
This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
— Richard Simmons
The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
— Mason Cooley
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
— Judith Jamison
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
— Judith Jamison
I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
— Judith Jamison
February dawn
frost on the path Where I paced all winter. — Jack Kerouac
frost on the path Where I paced all winter. — Jack Kerouac
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.
— Judith Jamison
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.
— Judith Jamison