Sean Taylor Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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It is very eclectic. That was the magic of John, though. He was somebody who embraced all forms of music over the last 40 years.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
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I'm a safety - I play free, strong, whatever you ask me to play.
