#insist

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


Twyla Tharp


#beginning #between #dance #i #insisted

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.


Robert Wagner


#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#attention #began #book #father #i

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.


Thomas Mann


#far #gentlemen #going #her #i

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.


Joseph McKenna


#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.


Ann Oakley


#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.


William H. Seward


#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.


Christy Turlington


#i #insist #living #never #nothing

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.


Paulo Coelho


#inspirational #quote #success #the-alchemist #inspirational

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.


Roy Barnes


#accountable #adult #adult life #after #better