Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

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• 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • God
  • Alone

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Mountains
  • Climbing
  • Outdoors

• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
  • Will
  • Motivational

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Sometimes
  • Luck
  • Try

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
  • Very
  • Vocation

• You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Be Yourself

• Quality is pride of workmanship.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Pride

• A civil war is going to break out inside the Republican Party along the old trench lines of the Goldwater-Rockefeller wars of the 1960s, a war for the heart and soul and future of the party.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Heart
  • War
  • Soul

• Genes themselves are made of bits.

  

  James Gleick

• At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Vampire

• In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Mind

• If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Good
  • Game
  • House

• I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Good
  • Sports

• Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

  

  John Singleton
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Party
  • Sports

• I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • People
  • Want
  • Relative