Twyla Tharp Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
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Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.
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Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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South Wales is a hub of aviation.
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I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
