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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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
