Taylor Hicks Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
