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William Howard Taft Quotes

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: president
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930

Topics

You Misunderstood Write Understood

I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.

Yourself I Am Me Trying Envy Play

Getting the blood moving through your body does do wonders for your complexion.

John Cameron Mitchell

Moving Body Blood Your Body Through

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Food Culture You Back Say Odds

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Hope People Legacy Enjoy Say Want

I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.

Car Brother Night Friends Remember

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Father Mother Age Man Thought Never

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

Work Home Eyes Great People Wind

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Death Creative Singing Voice Obvious

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

True Bay Area Bay Native Area

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Home Happy Right May Grants Spouse

Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

Demetrious Johnson

Time Myself Training Always Pushing

It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

Good Women World Believe Enough

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