Major Taylor Quotes

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Major Taylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 26, 1878 - June 21, 1932

Topics

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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.

John Dickerson

WorkSupportCustomerComfortYoung

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

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People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Matthew Bourne

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During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated by technological innovation, rising productivity, global capital flows, and sustained economic growth. If farm mechanization cuts the price of wheat, you get a rising living standard. This is good.

Steve Hanke

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I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Spike Jonze

PastPeopleFeelingPersonDone

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

Mary Hunter Austin

CreditKindNeverWildOwnAffairs

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Minna Antrim

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Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.

Jose Angel Gurria

AccountingWillResourcesIdentify

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.

Jonathan Brownlee

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I was an MTV guy back in the day.

Sean Duffy

DayBackGuyMTV

In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

BusinessTimeStressMeVoiceYou

I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

Thomas E. Donilon

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