Twyla Tharp Quotes

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Twyla Tharp

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Act

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Today
  • House
  • Myself

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Why
  • Kind

• I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• Old-school Dire Straits songs are on heavy rotation: 'So Far Away,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and of course 'Sultans of Swing.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • School
  • Far Away
  • Romeo And Juliet

• I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Think
  • Try
  • Fearless

• As long as I live, so long do I learn.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Long
  • Live

• I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Medical History
  • Folder
  • Thicker

• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • War
  • Gold

• I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim Burton.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Believe
  • Role
  • Sweeney Todd

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Horse
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

  

  Twyla Tharp