Carlisle Floyd Quotes
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
