Floyd Abrams Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Love is a state of being.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I've got my bag of goodies; I've got flaws coming out of every pore, but that's part of who I am. A bit of the process of life is learning to live with those things and accept yourself regardless. Maybe try to become a better person, either because of - or in spite of - those things.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
