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.
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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.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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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.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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I'm a huge gamer.
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Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'
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Reason is lost reasoning.
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
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You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.
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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.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Design is Law
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Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.
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I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.
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The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
