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Twyla Tharp

"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."

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Donna Grant

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

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Donna Grant

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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Donna Grant

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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Donna Grant

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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Donna Grant

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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Donna Grant

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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Donna Grant

"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."

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Donna Grant

"It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state-a state that had its own courageous revolution-from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks-as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told."

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Donna Grant

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

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Twyla Tharp
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."

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Twyla Tharp
"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."

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Twyla Tharp
"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."

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Twyla Tharp
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."

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"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."

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Twyla Tharp
"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."

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Twyla Tharp
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."

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Twyla Tharp
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."

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Twyla Tharp
"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."

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Twyla Tharp
"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."

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