Clifton Taulbert Quotes
Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
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I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?
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I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.
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Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don't operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That's the world. There's a shadow world that exists out there.
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
