Bayard Taylor Quotes

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

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• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
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• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
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• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
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• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
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  • Care
  • Teammates

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

  Saadi
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Patience

• I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • American
  • Political

• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • More
  • Vietnam

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Culture
  • Wealth
  • Labor

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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  • Point
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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
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• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
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  • Not Knowing

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
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  • Space

• If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

  

  Josh Ryan Evans
  • Movies
  • Problems
  • Escape

• Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Great
  • Important
  • Nature

• I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Work
  • Live
  • House

• My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Long
  • Live
  • Wife

• Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age