Andrew Taylor Still Quotes

Let us not be governed today by what we did yesterday, nor tomorrow by what we do today, for day by day we must show progress.

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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Day
  • Lucky

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Culture
  • Years
  • Financial

• I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Done
  • True
  • Think

• It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • World
  • Good
  • Dream

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Imagination

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

  

  Donatella Versace

• The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

  

  David Leitch
  • Present

• To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and they would write songs and develop themselves as artists. But then, instead of getting a little bit more credible, it got a little bit more ridiculous.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Done
  • Today
  • Amazing

• There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

  

  David Warner
  • Good
  • Character
  • Single

• Let us not be governed today by what we did yesterday, nor tomorrow by what we do today, for day by day we must show progress.

  

  Andrew Taylor Still
  • Today
  • Progress