Harold Taylor Quotes
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school. They ain't said I broke no rule. I ain't never been in Dutch. I don't browse around too muchDon't bother me leave me alone Anyway I'm almost grown
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
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My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.
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I've said for a long time there is no military solution to the crisis in Syria. There has to be a diplomatic solution. ISIL cannot be part of it. Al-Qaeda cannot be part of it, and Assad cannot be part of it. We are dealing with issues that have been going on for centuries, and I'm not sure the administration fully appreciates that.
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People keep getting married, even when times are tough. They want to keep celebrating. The special days appear to be the times where women are still happy to invest, both in terms of time and money. They want to be told that they look beautiful and be remembered for all the right reasons. They don't want to provoke much more reaction than that.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
