L.A. Reid Quotes

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Day
  • Diversity

• It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Art
  • Voice
  • Speak

• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Father
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Name

• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Know
  • England
  • Meetings

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Love
  • Expectations

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Poems

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Beginning
  • Write
  • Down

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

  

  L.A. Reid
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