Twyla Tharp Quotes
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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If necessary, Italy is prepared to fight against Islamic State in Libya because the Italian government cannot accept a terrorist danger in power just a few hours away from Italy by boat.
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If we could have ended the war by showing the power of science without killing a single person, all of us would now be happier, more reasonable and much more safe.
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
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In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
