Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.
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I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
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I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.
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I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
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I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
