Twyla Tharp Quotes

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

Twyla Tharp

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Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

Jerry Hall

TexasWellFourteenLooked

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

Suki Waterhouse

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Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

Steven Levy

CitySmallNowInfrastructureUsed

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

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A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

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The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Tom Dempsey

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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Rita Mae Brown

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Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.

Rob Halford

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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Michael Mandelbaum

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If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

Lloyd Blankfein

TimeMeLawPlanYouDown

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that's where I grew up.

Joshua Henry

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There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

Joseph Rotblat

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