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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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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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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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.
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Activism has been very productive in our society.
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The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
