Eddie Floyd Quotes
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
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Never have I had such great minds around me—Smuts, Balfour, Bonar Law...and Curzon. Curzon was perhaps not a great man, but he was a supreme Civil Servant. Compared to these men, the front benches of today are pigmies.
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I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
