Twyla Tharp Quotes

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

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• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Long
  • Value
  • Creation

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Business
  • Want
  • You

• It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Country
  • Think
  • Want

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Work
  • Trust

• You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time

• The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Heart
  • Age

• There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream.

  

  Marg Helgenberger

• Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn't sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Women
  • Relationship