Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

Ricky Reed

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• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Light

• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
  • Intelligent

• I did not come to NASA to make history.

  

  Sally Ride
  • History
  • Did
  • NASA

• Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Up
  • Change
  • Will

• 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Wishes

• Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Why
  • Simple

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Champion
  • Speed
  • Believed

• What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Money
  • Invest

• It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

  

  Jay Parini

• It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Nice
  • Healing
  • Creepy

• When Raghavendra Rao garu approached me to do a film on Lord Venkateswara, my initial response was 'What more can we do than Annamayya?' But he asked me to go through the script, and I really liked it.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Up

• I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn't end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • School
  • Law

• I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

  

  Anton du Beke

• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Play

• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Music
  • Country
  • She

• Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Listening

• I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Listening
  • Records
  • Bands