Chip Taylor Quotes
These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity and marvelous scientific aspect.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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You have seeds of greatness in you! I believe our lives as Christians should be the most exciting because we have the favor and blessings of God on our side!
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Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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Whenever an angel says 'Be not afraid!' you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.
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Education is the key in so many ways.
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We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
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At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.
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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
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I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
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People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.
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You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
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Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity and marvelous scientific aspect.
