Carlisle Floyd Quotes

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

Carlisle Floyd

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Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.

Jim Gray

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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

Jim Woodring

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Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

Joe Cowley

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We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.

Jill Soloway

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But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Joey Skaggs

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When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.

Johan Cruyff

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The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

John McWhorter

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It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

Jeff Lindsay

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When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Ronald Reagan

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I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

Cory Wells

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I go in full with my heart.

Christina Milian

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