Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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Related Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. AMIT RAY And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberatio... ANGELA DAVIS We know some of their movements. But we are not experts and the climate is changing quickly, making ... GUAN YI Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that a... JUDITH BUTLER There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement... DORIS HUMPHREY I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul w... JOSEPH BRODSKY There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. L.M. MONTGOMERY As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor... BELL HOOKS We're doing some very large muscle movements. GARY HECKMAN I think there is that huge false misconception that prescription drugs are safer and more sociably a... ANEISA MCDONALD My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. ELVIS PRESLEY I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the mos... DAVID LLOYD Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of t... DARCEY BUSSELL These movements are leading the country to a point that is unsustainable; I can't continue to govern... CARLOS MESA Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial exp... DEYTH BANGER That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have... MALCOLM GLADWELL I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. ... JONI MITCHELL We see these jerky head movements, jerky eye movements. That indicates muscle tension being released... JOSEPH TECCE Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to th... ABERJHANI The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I t... CLAIRE DANES In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don&... MATT TAIBBI The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movement... WILLIAM H. GASS Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. NORMAN MCLAREN I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me... EMERAUDE TOUBIA The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century c... DOUG AITKEN It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ROBERT LINDNER It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top ROBERT LINDNER There is heavy shelling and movements of their aircraft. We are just responding and defending our po... YEMANE GEBREMESKEL It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thir... SUSAN SARANDON The romance that has surrounded the Beat generation since the mid-Sixties has acted as a kind of sen... ROGER KIMBALL Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more comp... ZOLTAN KODALY One thing I find disturbing is as we move further away from specific historical movements, young peo... CHRIS BURNS We do a lot of ballet movements in class. So if you don't have a Crunch gym nearby, you can check ou... DONNA CYRUS I start out with breathing techniques. Then we move on to easy movements followed by more advanced m... ANGIE POMPA Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. GLORIA STEINEM There are simple common denominators in all sports, whether it's hockey or football or softball. An ... BILL EDWARDS Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military ex... KEITH HENSON In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE His support for many conservative lay movements such as Opus Dei ... and his rejection of opposing v... JAMES DONAHUE There are large national movements afoot about redistricting and union dues that are looking to this... STEVEN SCHIER It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. ROBERT LINDNER Volatile price movements look set to become the norm short to mid-term, as geo-political tensions an... JAMES MOORE Thank God their are more consonants than vowels. Can you imagine the tongue having to have all of th... PROFESSOR MAXINE DOOD-EL NOODEL Montessori is a movement that is expanding like wildfire. Today people think about education; there ... MARLENE BARRON I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others. D. A. PENNEBAKER Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. ALAN GREENSPAN Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured. RAFAEL SABATINI So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a sce... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera... SIMON RATTLE The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequentl... TASLIMA NASRIN I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most i... DARIO ARGENTO The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some peopl... JOHN MACKEY Colin is better than most people think. He is a solid, intelligent, fighter. He is up against it in ... DAVE STEWART The movements, the dancing are all connected to various things that have happened throughout our his... MARQUIS HARRISON Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Life is all about progress and movements, keep it moving. HOPAL GREEN There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down. FRANK NEWPORT ..it is helpful to think of your life not in terms of work but in terms of music—particularly... RICHARD N. BOLLES With motion capture, we can do that and get just pure dance movements. LEE CRONK His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me... MARIA V. SNYDER All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emo... ADOLF HITLER Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restless... G. STANLEY HALL The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearab... MALCOLM LOWRY Although aesthetically nugatory, "Beat Culture and the New America" was an exhibition of considerabl... ROGER KIMBALL The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN So swift, silent, and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood-hound picking out a ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When the body is doing a set rhythm, it expends less energy than when it's forced into multiple move... DINO NOVAK I think life is a chain of events. ZARA LARSSON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown, BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown. BARBARA BLOCK We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can c... JOSE SARAMAGO Inequality is the cause of all local movements. LEONARDO DA VINCI You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about mov... DAVID MAMET Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements va... PARKER PALMER U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my moveme... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you ha... BOB HARPER We're running through people now and I think a lot of that can be contributed to our weight training... DANIEL FINN Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discriminati... SEPP BLATTER Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown, BARBARA BLOCK I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thi... ROBERT DELAUNAY Victory for the Islamic movements . . . cannot be attained unless these movements possess an Islamic... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that... ELON MUSK Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ELLIOTT CARTER History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs.... HUGH EVANS I don't make no dirty movements ELVIS PRESLEY Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious... BILL SHANKLEY It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testamen... CHRISTINA ENGELA We try to bring a variety of movements. MORTEN LOURING Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The... JOHN C. CALHOUN A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, ... DAVID E. WILKINS As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in t... JAMES HALL Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a... JENNIFER LOPEZ Japanese officials make statements like that when we see very rapid movements in the foreign exchang... NIELS CHRISTENSEN The weakness of the dollar is having some impact on the market. The weakest sector is the auto secto... IAN SCOTT It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than ot... KATIE LEDECKY
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