Carlisle Floyd Quotes

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

Carlisle Floyd

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I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

Joan Jett

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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Jerry Garcia

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I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

Megan Fox

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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anais Nin

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Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

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If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Stephen F. Lynch

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The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Sloane Crosley

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The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.

Masayoshi Son

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For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.

Rosie Perez

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And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Mitchell Reiss

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We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Lisa Ling

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Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

Jonathan Van Ness

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