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  • Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music. -- Jamie Foxx
  • There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young. -- Pope Francis
  • You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. -- Robert Duvall
  • We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango. -- Silvan Shalom
  • The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. -- Yo-Yo Ma
  • I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. -- Marie Windsor
  • I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. -- Manuel Puig
  • Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times. -- Dana Gould
  • Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango. -- Carlos Gavito
  • I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling. -- Carlos Gavito
  • My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. -- Robert Fulghum
  • The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk. -- Robert Duvall
  • It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me. -- Krishna Das
  • You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief. -- Lionel Tiger
  • If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
  • The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. -- Carlos Gavito
  • -'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz. -- Kiersten White
  • The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master. -- Lillian Russell
  • Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. -- Lindsey Buckingham
  • As a professional, as a person, and as a player, I think he's fantastic. It's like he's dancing the tango. I just love how he plays football so elegantly. To me, Andres is Don Andres. -- Dani Alves
  • The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the night. -- Mira Grant
  • Look at Nicola Walker in 'Last Tango in Halifax.' She has the most wonderful face. You just want to look at her. And if she'd gone off and had Botox and facelifts, I wouldn't want to look at that face because it wouldn't express anything. -- Judy Parfitt
  • I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world. -- Lynne McTaggart
  • You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango. -- Tom Lehrer
  • My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango. -- Ted Nugent
  • Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it, -- Leatrice Eiseman
  • If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy. -- Leatrice Eiseman
  • I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything. -- Eva Green
  • Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession -- Janny Scott
  • Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die. -- Ian McKeever
  • I love to dance and perform the Argentine tango - it breathes love! -- Gilles Marini
  • I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal. -- Daron Malakian
  • The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning. -- Gilles Marini
  • I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had. -- Gary Burton
  • I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
  • I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
  • The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. -- Robert Duvall
  • When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child. -- Mariella Frostrup
  • There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them. -- Fred Armisen
  • I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them. -- Lesley Gore
  • I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with. -- Judy Parfitt
  • Daddy, What's the horizontal tango? -- Simone Elkeles
  • If you get all tangled up, just tango on. -- Al Pacino
  • It takes two to tango; when I go, you go. -- Malcolm X
  • When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow. -- Robert Duvall
  • In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango. -- Fred Hampton
  • Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body -- Janny Scott
  • For me, tango was always for the ear rather than the feet. -- Astor Piazzolla
  • When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango. -- Marina Abramovic
  • Niggas know my pussy taste like mango-tango so they put a couple karats in my ankle bangles -- Nicki Minaj
  • It takes two to tango"; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made." -- Olaotan Fawehinmi
  • Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects. -- Tim Ferriss
  • I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy. -- Tommy Chong
  • I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Steven Sater
  • It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone. -- Tom Robbins
  • I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango. They have it backward. They should look at me as the saviour of tango. I performed plastic surgery on it. -- Astor Piazzolla
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