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 took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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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 like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
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'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
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Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
