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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.


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FLOYD SKLOOT The girls are very excited and pumped up. They are a little nervous, but I think they are ready for ...
ANGELL FLOYD I was trying to slow the ball down and they were trying to push the ball. That is the difference in ...
ANGELL FLOYD Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were ...
ANGELL FLOYD It was ugly but it was a win and we'll take it.
ANGELL FLOYD It was good to see the girls can overcome obstacles and even pick up their game even more. They step...
ANGELL FLOYD When her shot is on, give it to her.
ANGELL FLOYD If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th...
ANGELL FLOYD Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the cent...
FLOYD SKLOOT I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love i...
FLOYD HENDERSON What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat...
CARLISLE FLOYD [One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what...
FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera...
FLOYD ABRAMS [Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F...
FLOYD ABRAMS [That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil...
FLOYD ABRAMS Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ...
FLOYD ABRAMS I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se...
FLOYD ABRAMS will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that...
FLOYD ABRAMS a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.
FLOYD ABRAMS coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.
FLOYD ABRAMS Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ...
FLOYD ABRAMS I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his...
CARLISLE FLOYD I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a grea...
CARLISLE FLOYD I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop...
CARLISLE FLOYD I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ...
CARLISLE FLOYD America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi...
CARLISLE FLOYD There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
RAY FLOYD I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and ...
FLOYD CIRULI A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS [In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ...
FLOYD ABRAMS They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
RAY FLOYD When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa...
PINK FLOYD How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y...
PINK FLOYD If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,
CLIFF FLOYD A roller coaster. We went from thinking we were in it to being out of it like that. It was shocking.
CLIFF FLOYD I don't recall seeing anything quite like this.
TIM FLOYD We want to try to hit a happy medium so everybody's happy. We won't want a bunch of money. The goal ...
ALLEN FLOYD That's a market we've been working on for years. It's good news, real good news. It'll give the chip...
ALLEN FLOYD