John Shelton Reed Quotes
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.
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I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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I first went on YouTube aged 15, and people were saying, 'Why not do this cover?' Then they wanted to hear my own stuff live, and it escalated from there. Selena Gomez's parents found my videos and manage me to this day.
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I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
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Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.
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Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.
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I touched the limits of our political system, which pushes one to last-minute compromises. Explanations are rarely given. It plays to people's fears because it hasn't built an ideological consensus. It produces flawed solutions and too often ignores reality.
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If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
