Andrew Taylor Quotes
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,For mother will be there.
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'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.
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Lateral thinking is closely related to insight, creativity and humour. All four processes have the same basis. But whereas insight, creativity and humour can only be prayed for, lateral thinking is a more deliberate process. It is as definite a way of using the mind as logical thinking - but a very different way.
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I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.
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Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.
