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

• They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Society
  • Fighting

• I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Mean

• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.

  

  Derek Luke
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• 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