L.A. Reid Quotes
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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If you're going to start a new life, you might as well start it NOW.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
