Bill Reid Quotes

I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.

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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • Trust
  • Fight

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Band
  • Risk
  • Possible

• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Program
  • China
  • Complacency

• There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • True
  • Rest
  • See

• Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Consider
  • Liberals

• A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Man
  • Hear

• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Success
  • Key
  • Key To Success

• We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Rock
  • Cold
  • Punk

• Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Singer

• Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Kids
  • Taxes
  • Ice Cream

• I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Business
  • Struggled
  • Miami Vice

• I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Experiences
  • American journey

• Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • World
  • Needs
  • Prove

• To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I'm just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Want
  • Funny
  • Opinion

• Both the worldling and the noble disciple experience painful bodily feelings, but they respond to these feelings differently. The worldling reacts to them with aversion and therefore, on top of the painful bodily feeling, also experiences a painful mental feeling: sorrow, resentment, or distress. The noble disciple, when afflicted with bodily pain, endures such feeling patiently, without sorrow, resentment, or distress. It is commonly assumed that physical and mental pain are inseparably linked, but the Buddha makes a clear demarcation between.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Sorrow

• In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Wealth
  • Privilege
  • Controlled

• I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Consider
  • Fortunate
  • Privilege