Taylor Mali Quotes
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Quotes to Explore
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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With more women in the workplace and in positions of power and leadership, with the legalization of gay marriage and the emerging liberation of the LGBTQ community, traditional definitions of masculinity are changing for the better.
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
