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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe its simply because I wasnt that committed to geometry. – Twyla Tharp

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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. – Twyla Tharp

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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Its sort of a feeling of power onstage. Its really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I dont really think its power… its the goodness. – Robert Plant

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I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight. – Ayelet Waldman

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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Liberal: a power worshipper without power. – George Orwell

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