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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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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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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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
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When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
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Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.
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Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.
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I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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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.
