Clifton Taulbert Quotes
Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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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 guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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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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I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.
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I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
