Twyla Tharp Quotes
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
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I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
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Friendship is the most important thing of all.
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
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People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.
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I have put gay dating on the map.
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
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If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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If a thing moves, it lives.
