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.
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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.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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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.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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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.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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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.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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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.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
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To cherish the life of the world.
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If you want to change your life, change the questions you ask yourself each day!
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Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
