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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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 basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums.
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I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
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Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.