William Taylor Quotes
True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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I saw bat speed right from the beginning. After you've got bat speed, my job is to get him into position to use the bat speed. That's what we've worked on, proper positioning, stay down on the ball and not try to pull everything.
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I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.
