Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
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There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
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Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine-in fact one shudders to imagine-a child of today reading and enjoying it.
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Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.
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The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
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You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
