Taylor Hicks Quotes
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
