L.A. Reid Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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You have to be yourself.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
