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.
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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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Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'
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Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent... That's where I grew up.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves right under the very fangs of the monster.
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As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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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.
