Chuck Eddy Quotes

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Lies

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Future
  • Moment
  • Year

• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Chicago
  • Heavy
  • Assigned

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Faith
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Sister
  • Three

• Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Destiny
  • Warrior

• I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

  

  Chuck Eddy
  • World
  • Music