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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#find #friends #go #going #lean

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#any #ballet #classes #control #discipline

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#amazing things #body #called #really #situation

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#capable #dancing #fact #getting #healthy

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#black #eyes #faces #front #get

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#enjoy #error #give #learn #really

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#commitment #fear #hold #independence #marrying

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#amazed #been #best #demonize #enormous

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#because #both #degree #either #issues