Dylan Taylor Quotes
Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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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.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.
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Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
