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.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A will finds a way.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Genes themselves are made of bits.
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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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.
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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.
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I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
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Typically, being under the strike zone with the sinker isn't a big issue. I need to be a little bit higher with the strike zone earlier in the count. If you miss under with one here and there when you're ahead, it's really not an issue.
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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.
