Chris Slade (Christopher Slade Rees) Quotes

I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.

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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • World
  • Hate
  • Enjoy

• When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Punk
  • Pure

• The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Country
  • Power

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Want
  • Same
  • Most

• I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Men
  • Think
  • Fashion

• The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Gospel
  • Personally

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Driving

• If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
  • History

• I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Money

• The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• I started my career buying and owning single-family houses, and I know that's a really tough job. Toilets break. Trees fall. There are so many things that can go wrong. Land, on the other hand, is cheap to manage. It's painless, really. All you have to do is pay your taxes, and that's it.

  

  David Lichtenstein
  • Family
  • Job
  • Career

• The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Father

• If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

  

  Peter Fonda
  • Work
  • Great
  • Energy

• The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Road
  • Mad
  • Scientist

• I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.

  

  Chris Slade
  • Father
  • Public
  • Showbiz