Paul Taylor Quotes

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Born
  • New
  • Roots

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.

  

  Willie Herron
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Ability

• To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Hand
  • Grave
  • Ice Cream

• I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

  

  Paul Taylor
  • Nature