Harold Taylor Quotes
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
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I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by transportation. Sometimes local food is more energy efficient. But often it's not. The strongest case for locavorism is to eat less that's flown on planes, and not to worry about boats.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
