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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
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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.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Hair
  • Trump
  • Make

• 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.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Friends
  • Friendships

• My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Mother
  • Father

• '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.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• 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!

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Diversity

• I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan

• I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
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  • Believe

• One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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  • Women
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• You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Family
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• Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Life
  • Real

• Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I feel like I get opportunities that most people my age don't get. But, like, I can't do what most 18-year-olds do. Like, I can't go out partying all the time: I have to work and get up early.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• This will probably be one of our largest squads at an away meet. The meet being so close enables us to get a look at some of the people that didn't go to Georgia.

  

  Jack Warner
  • People
  • Meet
  • Enable

• Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• 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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