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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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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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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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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I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked out first.
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I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
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I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.
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It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
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Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
