Floyd Skloot Quotes
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
