Cecil Taylor (Cecil Percival Taylor) Quotes
Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
Cecil Taylor
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
Rafael Nadal
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
Quentin Tarantino
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Victoria Osteen
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
Mackenzie Phillips
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
K. A. Applegate
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Garry Trudeau
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Ted Allen
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
Ferid Murad
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.
Mike Weir
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I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
Chris Lilley
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Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
Stephen Covey
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People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.
Lynda Carter
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Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"
Cecil Taylor
