Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
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It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
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After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'
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It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.
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How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
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As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.
