Andy Taylor Quotes

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

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• As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • True
  • Celebrity

• Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Culture

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Children
  • City
  • New York

• I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Think
  • Better
  • Repetition

• There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Education
  • Day
  • Lawyer

• I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Think
  • Need

• There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Someone
  • Unpredictable

• Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Humor

• I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Times
  • Honored

• There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Theater

• I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • Young
  • Company

• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Space
  • Math

• There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead

• I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• I'm aware of what my effect on the populous could be, and I try to use it in a positive way, whether it be in an Instagram post or a tweet, or promoting whatever new job that I have. I don't figure too much as a Latino man coming up, or a certain ethnic man. I'm very, very proud of being a Mexican-American man, but I would rather people just see me as a man coming up who just happens to be Mexican.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Proud

• I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • May
  • High

• The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Driving

• The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran