Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Actor's life is very long.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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What is your sex's earliest, latest care,Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
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The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
