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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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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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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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.
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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
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Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.
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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.'
