Acrobatics Quotes

• I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dancing, Specialty

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• Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

  Idina Menzel

  Real, Trying, Done

  Idina Menzel @idinamenzel, twitter.com. January 1, 2015.

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• But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Wings, Ideas

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• God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Believe, Brain, Doe

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

  La Meri

  Dance, Technique, Movement

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• So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

  David Belle

  Long, Goal, Parkour

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• The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Views

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• "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."

  Kanye West

  Rap, Dark, Apology

  "Kanye West New York Times Interview: Rapper Takes Back Taylor Swift Apology, Professes Love For Kim Kardashian", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Naked acrobatics are on my resume.

  Miles Teller

  Naked, Resumes

  "Zac Efron, co-stars talk 'naked acrobatics,' have 'awkward moment' on TODAY". Interview with Ree Hines, www.today.com. January 21, 2014.

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• Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

  David Belle

  Art, Differences, Goal

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• Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

  Nalini Singh

  Air, Blue, Cake

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.63, Penguin

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• Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

  Ogyu Sorai

  Math, Reality, Achievement

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• I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.

  Ludmilla Tourischeva

  Sports, Gymnastics, Support

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• I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Friday, Art, Guitar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

  Mariah Carey

  Soul, Singing, Scales

  "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY: "My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

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• I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Gymnastics, Popping, Robotics

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• There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Simple, Men, Feelings

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• My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Father, Airplane

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• I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

  "Oh Mandy! Barry Manilow is back, baby". The Associated Press, www.today.com. February 23, 2006.

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• The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Girl, Wise, Mean

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• And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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