Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen -
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin -
Have a little faith. Don't give up.
Fantasia Barrino -
I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
Taylor Swift -
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
Karolyn Grimes -
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner -
I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
Karen Kain -
And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
Daniel Alarcon
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
H. Jon Benjamin -
With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
Anna Sui -
I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
Amanda Palmer -
To cherish the life of the world.
Margaret Mead
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
Foster Friess -
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
Yuna -
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every color holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colors are colors, tones tones.. ..and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.
Emil Nolde -
Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
Vernon Reid