Eric Reid Quotes
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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What I do is I do my job.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
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Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.
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The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
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It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.
