Eric Taylor Quotes
Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
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I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.
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It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
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Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
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If you sense there must be more, there is more.
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Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
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The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.
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The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
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Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
