Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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We don't get to decide who God is.
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
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The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
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I will know him by his eyes.
