Brian Reade Quotes
A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
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A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.
