Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
Venus Williams -
I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
Eden Hazard -
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
Queen Latifah -
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
Os Guinness -
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
Padmasree Warrior -
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
Jack Kilby -
Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
T. J. Miller -
I'm a huge gamer.
Taran Killam -
Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'
Morrissey The Smiths
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Reason is lost reasoning.
Antonio Porchia -
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump -
You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
Demetrious Johnson -
I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.
Antonio Villaraigosa -
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire -
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Christopher Marlowe
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The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
John Ensign -
At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
Rachel McAdams -
I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
Duncan Jones -
The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
Don Johnson -
The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
Cecil Taylor