Cecil Taylor Quotes

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

Cecil Taylor

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Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

Jim Cooper

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Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

Jill Soloway

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I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

Matthew McGrory

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The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

John Woolman

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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Ronald Reagan

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Companies with aspirations to be larger publishers - Kabam, Kixeye, even Zynga - are moving aggressively off the Facebook platform to mobile and the open Web. Publishers aren't convinced that the costs of being on Facebook are worth it.

Mitch Lasky

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I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

Jose Andres

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I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

Dick Dale

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If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everything as far as show business is involved.

Chris Jericho

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I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Bobby Knight

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They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

Philip Hone

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In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

Paul von Hindenburg

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