Astra Taylor Quotes

I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be really wonderful and we're all navigating this reality to the best of our abilities. But, again, I wanted to take a step back and look at the broader context.

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• The game is meant to be fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Meant To Be

• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Up
  • Done
  • Couple

• I am the great thresher! I gulp in passers by and spit out pieces of blood and bone! I am the destroyer of worlds! I shall tear into this country until nothing is left but ash and crackling, and all the citizens shall wail and gnash their teeth! All will perish before the might of Fox!

  

  Liam Fox
  • Great
  • Country

• I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stress

• If it's servicing a real need, that doesn't go away in a recession. If you're serving a true need, and if you have a loyal group of customers that are falling... As the world goes through a tough time, these customers will stay with you.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Couple

• I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Important

• I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Stupid

• I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.

  

  Curtis Sliwa
  • People
  • World
  • Feeling

• I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

  

  Loni Love
  • Friend
  • Comedy

• Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • People
  • Comedy

• Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • God
  • Nice

• A guy who's not a champion can't talk too much about championships, can he?

  

  Draymond Green
  • Guy
  • Champion

• All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

  

  Chester Bennington Stone Temple Pilots

• Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Decision

• A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Children
  • Happiness
  • Easter

• I have to grow with my audience.

  

  Ice T
  • Audience
  • Grow

• Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Judges

• I've always had a tomboy look.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Always
  • Look
  • Tomboy

• 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Nature
  • Lost

• I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be really wonderful and we're all navigating this reality to the best of our abilities. But, again, I wanted to take a step back and look at the broader context.

  

  Astra Taylor