Floyd Skloot Quotes
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
