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Think Quote, Year 02, Day 136

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
(Gustave Flaubert)

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
(Twyla Tharp)

Nothing could do more to give life back to our blighted urban cores than to reinstate the pedestrian, in malls and pleasances designed to make circulation a delight.
(Lewis Mumford)

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
(Kurt Loder)

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on have found that none of these satisfy, or permanently wear what remains? Nature remains.
(Walt Whitman)

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
(Louise Brown)

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.
(Mary Hart)

Role of the Federal Government: 1) To develop additional trails on Federal lands, especially in or near urban areas. 2) To work with states and local agencies in their planning of trail programs. 3) To encourage local leadership, both public and private. 4) To help local agencies obtain financial assistance to acquire the necessary land.
(USDI Bureau of Outdoor Recreation)