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.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• 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.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Horizon
  • Invest
  • Beyond

• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
  • Like
  • Disney

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• 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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Faith
  • Through
  • Cardinal

• 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.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • Way
  • Just
  • Guess

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Beautiful
  • Growth
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Process

• I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.

  

  Brianna Hildebrand
  • Music
  • Home
  • She

• I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Great
  • Together
  • Player

• My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Happy
  • Couple
  • Smile

• Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.

  

  Clifton Taulbert
  • People
  • Community
  • Benefits