Carlisle Floyd Quotes

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carlisle Floyd

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I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Jim Broadbent

BestCultureFunPeopleFindWay

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Jim Cooper

NatureLeadershipJobThinkProblem

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

Joe Torre

BelieveWinnerI BelieveAfraidFail

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

Andy Dunn

IdentityMeGrowing UpGrowingUp

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

Robert J. Shiller

PowerFeelBackWantClassPoor

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

Sterling K. Brown

LifeSadPerspectiveAppreciateYou

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

Tracy Morgan

LiveNightSaturdayRememberYear

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Tom Wolfe

BeautifulCookingWomanDinnerEarth

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Michael P. Anderson

SpaceFlyingYouLaunchRocketJust

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

Michael Lewis

MirrorBlameLookingThinkSomeone

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

Juan Vargas

WorkGoodPoliticsMeGood Things

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Joyce Meyer

GodTimeAngryYouOverWhatever

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