Eddie Floyd Quotes
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I'm curvy.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people and then copy them. I found it really hard to walk straight. My brother was always on at me for walking off the pavement. I guess I always expected people to bring me back into line.
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Children tell the truth.
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The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
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To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.
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I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
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The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
