Taggart Quotes

• My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

  Mel Brooks

  Creative, Mind, Alternatives

  "Blazing Saddles". www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Honesty, Anger

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.228, Hamilton Books

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• There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

  Ayn Rand

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Firsts, Feels

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• This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!

  Keith Carradine

  Space, Hook, Aliens

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Children, Growing Up, Night

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• She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

  Ayn Rand

  Distance, Past, Rivers

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1972, Penguin

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• The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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