Raymond Floyd Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.
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To preserve Nature's chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
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My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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All governments are lying cocksuckers.
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A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
