Alan Taylor Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
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If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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Every outer purpose is doomed to 'fail' sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.
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In truth, elite education has become a cattle brand. It signifies lots of things other than knowledge: for some, politically correct certification; for others, good test scores and grades that got them in; for a few, later entry into the alumni ranks of high business, law, academia, government, and the media.
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It was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them just look like droopy-eyed armless children.
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In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.
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Any individual entity that pretends to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.
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I would say I've actually done a lot more comedy than I've done drama. It's weird the way that worked out, because when I came out of theater school I took myself way too seriously, so it's kind of ironic that I ended up sort of going down the comedy path.
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America is good enough for us.
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I'm not a shouter, but I like to put my stamp on things.
