Twyla Tharp Quotes

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Important
  • Book
  • Me

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Year
  • Going
  • Within

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.

  

  Ciara
  • Fly

• The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

  

  John Gay
  • Lost
  • Fly

• All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?" "Anything." His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Together
  • Fly

• In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Fly