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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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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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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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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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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Sometimes it gets a little hectic on trips because we're skating all day long, and all you want to do is eat dinner and go to sleep. So sometimes it gets a little long for my liking, but the second I get home, it's straight to the shower to fix it all up, and we're good to go.
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Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
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I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
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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.
