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What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. -- Robert Gottlieb
Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. -- Benjamin Millepied
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru. -- Jasmine Guinness
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. -- Michelle Obama
Lake quiets, tired of my lies. -- Deborah Ager
In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes. -- Garrison Keillor
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. -- Louis Sachar
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe. -- Aaron Sorkin
Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake. -- Marilyn Manson
Lake is jealous of mountain; mountain is jealous of lake! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. -- Graeme Murphy
Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite. -- Janine di Giovanni
The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous. -- Jane D. Hull
Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake. -- Karl Malone
Who doesn't have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka. -- Scott Disick
I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet. -- Frederick Lenz
A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind. -- Brent Musburger
I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet. -- Frederick Lenz
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way. -- Natalia Makarova
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. -- Garrison Keillor
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid! -- Phyllis Diller
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. -- Pat Williams
Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.' -- David Hallberg
I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. -- Zubin Mehta
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery. -- Mark Helprin
I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. -- Peter Sagal
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. -- Patrick Fugit
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. -- Collin Peterson
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. -- Calamity Jane
I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake. -- Collin Peterson
I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't. -- Sonia Johnson
Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. -- Hermann Maier
I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats. -- Billy Collins
If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls) -- Darren Shan
I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach. -- Roma Downey
One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. -- Teresa R. Funke
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. -- Bob Balaban
I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake. -- Christa Faust
Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake -- Colleen Hoover
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. -- Hillary Clinton
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. -- Al Capone
When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality -- Al Capone
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. -- Gary Shteyngart
I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. -- Elizabeth George
We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. -- Sara Paretsky
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. -- Jane D. Hull
Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt. -- Rory Bremner
Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action. -- Nate Holland
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como. -- Franz Liszt
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. -- Neil Diamond
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape. -- Joe Hockey
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. -- Matt Kuchar
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. -- Jean Shepherd
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. -- Mary N. Cook
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. -- Robert Gottlieb
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! -- William Wordsworth
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. -- Oscar Wilde
And there was no reason for them to be dancing the Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night -- Mark Helprin
The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. -- Kim Edwards
The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. -- Kim Edwards
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon -- Garrison Keillor
Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing. -- Charles Duhigg
The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake! -- Rick Riordan
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. -- Joan Mitchell
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday. -- Roger Bannister
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids. -- Ernesto Bertarelli
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie. -- Joanne Fluke
I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice. -- Nicole Anderson
My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well. -- David Sanborn
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. -- Elizabeth George
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it. -- John Tesh
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics. -- Dan Aykroyd
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum. -- Fred Reed
I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak. -- Emo Philips
Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid. -- Duncan Sheik
I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.' -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo. -- Louise Penny
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes. -- Natalia Makarova
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me. -- Bertrand Russell
I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality. -- Brittany Bowe
The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy. -- Thomas Macdonough
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know. -- Judd Nelson
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. -- Hermann Maier
It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects. -- Rex Norman
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O. -- Mychal Thompson
All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.) -- Rick Riordan
Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario. -- Dorothy Parker
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. -- Bill Scott
I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to. -- Matt Skiba
I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around. -- Andrew J. Feustel
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming. -- Mark Ruffalo
I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions. -- Ezra Taft Benson
It always has been a goal of mine to compete in the Olympics. Right after I graduated from college, I moved out to Salt Lake City with my mind focused on making the 2014 team. -- Brittany Bowe
My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating. -- Jimmy Fallon
Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.' -- Carla Korbes
That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world. -- Hayley Wickenheiser
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset. -- Nate Holland
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time."Thank you. Do you want something? -- Neil Gaiman
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! -- Rick Danko
I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.' -- Kim Edwards
You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change. -- Collin Peterson
In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes. -- David Wenham
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. -- Benjamin Millepied
We can choose to be like the Mormon pioneers, who maintained a spirit of gratitude during their slow and painful trek toward the Great Salt Lake, even singing and dancing and glorying in the goodness of God. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar. -- Natalie Gulbis
On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. -- Jill Soloway
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time. -- Greg LeMond
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. -- Douglas Adams
I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg. -- Keith Emerson

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