Chip Taylor Quotes
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The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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Everything I do, I want to be A.J. Styles. When you see a guy come out with dry, long hair, I want you to be like, 'Hey, that reminds me of A.J. Styles.' That's what I want.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
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When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
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Ryan and I worked as hard as we could every day. All we wanted to do was to show that we belonged up here, that we wanted to stay up here and that we never have to play another game down there.
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There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!
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It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.
