Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes
A lot of people say don't let bad vibes into the studio, but I love to. If you're having a bad day, write a song that feels like that.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
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There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.
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In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.
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The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.
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When Scandal had a top 20 video, no one knew what I looked like. I had all this stuff on me.
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There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.
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I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
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We all have one other world we live in: our public world. Some people call it our public persona. This is the world where someone who doesn't know you privately, personally, or professionally hears your name and has some opinion about you one way or another. So the question becomes: where is integrity rooted? Some people think it's rooted in their public life. They spend all of their time trying to spin their public image. It's not rooted there, however. It's simply revealed there. People who lack integrity will have it revealed publicly.
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Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring.
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A lot of people say don't let bad vibes into the studio, but I love to. If you're having a bad day, write a song that feels like that.
