Eric Reid Quotes

Obviously I descend from Africa.

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• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Never
  • Belief

• If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Man
  • Football
  • Unique

• The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Space

• The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Piece

• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • World
  • Love
  • Think

• My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Travel

• I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Playing
  • Hardest

• Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Like
  • Dark

• Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Control
  • Moral
  • Politics

• I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Daily
  • Walk
  • Island

• Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Magic
  • Victory
  • Anxiety

• If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

  

  Serena Williams
  • People
  • Rooms
  • Opposites

• With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

  

  Tony Scott
  • World
  • Different
  • Character

• Obviously I descend from Africa.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Africa
  • Descend