Margaret Mead Quotes

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

… avoid the use of language which may discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, age or culture.

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.

No one can be a sex kitten every day, and anyone who tells you that is lying.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

If I can not dance, I shall die!