Floyd Abrams Quotes
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.
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Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
