James Taylor Quotes

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

James Taylor

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I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

Jennifer Konner

HomeNew YorkBedNewWriteOut

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

John Catsimatidis

RespectMoonSayingEndDreamGo

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

Anna Howard Shaw

BelieveBetterYouBe TrueWrong

I work hard. That's what people should know about me. I work hard. I eat right. I'm in the gym.

Metta World Peace

WorkPeopleMeWork HardGymKnow

There have been many very successful acquirers, where they've bought up companies, and they've grown their earnings very rapidly, and the stock has appreciated tremendously.

John Paulson

AppreciatedUpSuccessfulWhereBeen

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

Tracy Chapman

MotherChildMeSisterThinkAlways

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

Tom King

ExperiencePastWarThinkImpactGo

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

Rodrigo Duterte

NothingAgainstFineGays

When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile.

Mike Schultz

WalkBikeHelpYouBackSwing

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

Martin Rees

TechnologyResponsibilityIdeasNew

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

Martine Syms

WorkHistoryMemoryTelevisionKind

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

WorkGoodAcceptancePoetryValues

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