D. J. Taylor Quotes
Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
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I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.
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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
