James Taylor Quotes

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

James Taylor

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I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

John Mackey

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I don't need a lot of attention. I'd much rather have the work be famous than the face be famous.

Jeff MacNelly

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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Polanyi

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Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

John Podhoretz

AmericaGoWillOverContractsBig

It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'

Stormzy

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I never wanted my grandmother to leave my side.

Tori Bowie

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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

Tom Landry

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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

Robin Williams

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I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.

Jason Momoa

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Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Derek Walcott

PoetryThinkYouLookAliveMissing

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was.

Susan Estrich

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I'm a forward, and I dream of a goal in the World Cup, pushing it, kicking it from outside the box, wherever. I dream of scoring at a World Cup.

Paulo Dybala

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