Cecil Taylor Quotes

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

Cecil Taylor

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YouFindNoteInstrumentThenAlso

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Jerry Stiller

FunnyGoodThinkKnowJudgment

It is our task to provide policies suited to the different situations of today.

John Bracken

TodayTaskDifferentOurProvide

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

RisksActionChanceLongInaction

We never want to hear the customer say, 'You have nice sunglasses, but I can't find jeans in my size.'

Robert J. Fisher

SunglassesCustomerYouFindNice

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Amos Lee

TimePeopleThinkUnderstandingBig

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Robert T. Bakker

AgeSeaTimeOceanIceLost

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Mona Simpson

PeopleGossipKnowStorytellingWhom

For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.

Jose Andres

GoodMeBetterOliveThanReally

Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

Jose Canseco

SayingTalkingBackSteroidsAbout

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

Denis Leary

FirePeopleHomelessBuildingWarm

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Chesty Puller

LiveCourageAloneHistoryPossible

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have.

Cote de Pablo

PrivacyGoKnowComplainingLittle

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