Twyla Tharp Quotes
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.
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Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.
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Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
