Bert Leston Taylor Quotes
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
