Eddie Floyd Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
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That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
