Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
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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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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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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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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You don't realise it, but we're in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They're way ahead.
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All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.
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At home, my mom and my dad shared equally in the responsibilities of the family and our home and always demonstrated the importance of men and women having an equal role.
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
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The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
