Eric Reid Quotes
I prefer safety. That's what I've played my whole life, but if the team needs me to play linebacker, then I'll do it.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.
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When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."
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I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.
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I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.
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I prefer safety. That's what I've played my whole life, but if the team needs me to play linebacker, then I'll do it.
