Chris Slade (Christopher Slade Rees) Quotes
I still get people coming up with Firm albums saying, “It’s my favorite band ever.” That is genuine. When I’m on the road, it’ll happen twice a night. After all that time, we must have done something right.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
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I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
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'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'
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Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
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I still get people coming up with Firm albums saying, “It’s my favorite band ever.” That is genuine. When I’m on the road, it’ll happen twice a night. After all that time, we must have done something right.
