Chip Taylor Quotes

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• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• I never allow myself to be pressured.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Allow

• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Job
  • Law

• My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Good
  • Goal

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Man

• There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • See
  • Darkness

• Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Coach

• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Game

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer

• My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Song
  • Person
  • Loved

• I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Style

• The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is all about the media. Well, to be honest, every day at the Super Bowl is about the media, but Tuesday of Super Bowl week is specifically called Media Day.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • Honest
  • Before
  • Specifically

• The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • Bible
  • Scripture
  • Word Of God

• The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • World
  • Space

• A budget is what a budget is; you've got to make it fit

  

  Chip Taylor
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