John Shelton Reed Quotes
I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.
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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
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I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.
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I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.
