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.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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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.
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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.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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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.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
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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.
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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.
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It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
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It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.
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I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going through all the bins looking for something new that seemed interesting to me and that could relate to what I was listening to at the time. This is why I want to support National Record Store Day.
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The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra) which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
