Bayard Taylor Quotes
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I'm very open-minded.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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Life is always at some turning point.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's probably affected everything else about me. Obviously, the more you travel, the wilder the things that keep happening to you, the more likely it is you'll get complete strangers knocking on your hotel room door.
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The defining mission of the Muslim Brotherhood is the implementation of sharia.
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If you dress like a movie star, you have me.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
