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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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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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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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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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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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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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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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
