I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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I liken her to this era's version of Billie Jean King,
DONNA LOPIANO
When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie w...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it go...
IDRIS ELBA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Gra...
BONNIE TYLER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
SALLY RIDE I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I woul...
AIMEE GARCIA
Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
SERENA WILLIAMS
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
BOB HOPE You say to Billie Jean, 'Boy, what's wrong with Venus' serve?' - that's an hour.
MARY CARILLO Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Hol...
DIANA ROSS People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made ...
ILLINOIS JACQUET
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha...
ERYKAH BADU
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.
CYNTHIA RYLANT I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!
CARSON KRESSLEY I can dance - I can dance a little bit. I can move. I don't - I'm not a - I don't procla...
ELIJAH KELLEY Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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ALEXANDER POPE
Life is not about how you survive the storm, it's about how you dance in the rain.
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I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower c...
CONOR MCGREGOR I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I...
ROMEO MILLER
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
SHAILENE WOODLEY
I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.
DONATELLA VERSACE Me and my brothers used to watch it together. That's how we learned to dance.
GREG TALBOTT
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca...
TINA TURNER I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
ALAIN ROBERT Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
BOBBY RIGGS I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. ...
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I did a bit of karate - I'm a blackbelt - so I know how to move.
ELODIE YUNG Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how t...
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'Cavemen' was obviously a big opportunity. I learned a lot about how to act and about the po...
NICK KROLL I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable ob...
COLEMAN YOUNG I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're danc...
OLIVIA HOLT On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi...
ERIC DANE I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funn...
DAVID JAVERBAUM
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was ...
KEITH HARING And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the mus...
DAR WILLIAMS I learned to love dance for its own sake.
SUZANNE FARRELL All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries througho...
TROY POLAMALU
I used to dance, but now I only move.
BEN VEREEN I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
VANESSA MINNILLO Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
DON CORNELIUS
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance...
ALEXANDER POPE
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be abl...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn...
ED HARRIS
I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
LIAM GALLAGHER
I trained in martial arts and wanted to become a UFC fighter. That was my goal. I only really learne...
RYAN GUZMAN
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
ERIC CLAPTON
I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said...
NICOLAS CAGE
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I'v...
PARIS HILTON Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a char...
CAMPBELL SCOTT My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano...
TIM CURRY
I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.
MINKA KELLY
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance
COWBOY PROVERB
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ESPERANZA SPALDING I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do...
PETRA COLLINS
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CHERIE LUNGHI I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
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