Chip Taylor Quotes
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
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Don't do anything to try to fit in.
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I'm not used to saying I'm gonna do something and i don't do it.
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When someone tells me I can't do something it just makes me try even harder.
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Do at least one thing every day that brings you joy and happiness.
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Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
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But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?
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I think you can do a comedy show on just about every subject under the sun as long as it relates to the audience.
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn’t have very strong personal resonance.
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Well, I went to [Hitchcock's] house every day for about three weeks, and I realized that every time I brought up the subject of Mary Deare, he would change the subject. So, I began to suspect that he didn't know any more about how to do the picture than I did. Finally, I went to his house one morning and said, "I've got bad news for you, Hitch. You'll have to get another writer. I don't know how to write this picture." And he said, "Don't be silly, Ernie. We'll do something else." And I said, "But what'll we tell MGM?" And he said, "We won't tell them a thing." And that's how it evolved.
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Most of the time, I do my own hair. I have good hair, so I don't need much. I don't need a hairdresser to come unless I want something very specific.
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We know how to show respect to our opponent, Juventus in this instance. This is what makes this win so great and significant. We have lost in Malmo, and tonight we wanted to do something good; we are really pleased we pulled it through
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She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.
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I know about how you need to be left alone to do work. I know why. This job, you'll be allowed to do that. You'll report to me, but when you're here, you'll be working on tasks that I assign and that you'll be able to do by yourself.
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The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
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How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?
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The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
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The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.
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I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.
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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
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By the end of our lives, we're covered in battle scars and shrapnel.
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Monarchs do this quite a bit but we don't how much they do it.
