Ricky Reed (Eric Burton Frederic) Quotes
Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
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Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
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Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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We don't work with anyone.
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Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
