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

• When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Kind
  • Years
  • Old

• 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

• It's sort of my job to feel good.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Job
  • Feel Good

• You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Apology

• 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've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Great
  • Alone

• 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

• Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• 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

• A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Bad

• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

  

  Per Petterson
  • Good
  • Writing

• 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 listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

  

  Astrid S
  • Music
  • Remember

• Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

  

  James Redfield

• I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me.

  

  SZA
  • Mom
  • Hair

• If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

  

  Nathan M. Pusey
  • Education
  • Critics
  • Lack

• I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

  

  Derek Jeter

• 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