Twyla Tharp Quotes
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.
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First appearance deceives many.
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They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
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The thing I love about Marvel in general is that they deal with people. They deal with the human being first: Who is inside the suit? Who is the person that obtained this power or this ability?
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
