Major Taylor Quotes
Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.

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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Life is about timing.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.
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We are very fortunate to have Matt Carter join the Apollo board. Matt brings deep management, operations, marketing and international business expertise to the company, along with a track record of growing and strengthening well-known consumer brands.
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Now a few words of advice to boys, and especially to those of my own race, my heart goes out to them as they face life's struggles.