Raymond Floyd Quotes
As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
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Just when you look around and you see people with straight hair in media, you kind of feel the need to fit in, so it's kind of a constant battle loving my hair. It's something that I'm continuously working on.
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The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
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As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
