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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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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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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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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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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My family will be disappointed only if I'm disappointed, and hopefully that won't be the case. I'm trying to view the Olympics like any other race and I think the London course will suit my style.
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I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
