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Carlisle Floyd Quotes

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1926

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Father Mother Extent Lesser

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

Love Together Words Me Interesting

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Smile Yourself Face Laugh Learn You

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Nature Patience Science Secrets Out

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft.

Think Generation Robots Understand

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

History Wife Beginning Queen Cake

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

Daughter Shoes Pizza Deep You Gym

I say some silly things now and again.

Silly Now Say Things Again Some

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Age Opera Middle Passions Middle Age

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Identity Gender Results Said Behind

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Chris Hemsworth

World Opinions Become Shape Us Kids

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Earth Land Protect Own Share Only

I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

Fun Flying Things Used Idea Stuff

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