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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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.
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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 think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.
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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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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'
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If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.
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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.
