Carlisle Floyd Quotes
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
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Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
