Eric Reid Quotes

We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.

Eric Reid

• Fighting
• Pressure
• Decisions
• Laws
• Agitation

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• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Better
  • Fascinating

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• How sweet it is!

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • How

• I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Great
  • Day
  • Dreams

• The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Whales

• For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Me
  • Alone

• The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Painting
  • Point
  • Deception

• It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Balance

• You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Time

• I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Parents
  • Unique

• I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Work

• I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Heart
  • Unknown

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

  

  Edd Roush
  • Good
  • Place
  • Theory

• While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fool

• We've got to keep fighting. Got to keep agitating. Got to keep making sure that we put pressure on the people who make the laws, and the decisions, in this country.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Fighting
  • Pressure
  • Decisions