Taylor Caldwell Quotes
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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I do my job like I breathe.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
