Jimmy Reid Quotes

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

Jimmy Reid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: July 9, 1932 - August 10, 2010

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I really feel like becoming a director came from other women saying, 'Yeah, you can do this.' I wanted to direct 'Six Feet Under,' and no, they didn't let me.

Jill Soloway

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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Steve Lacy

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I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

Sue Kelly

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If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

Trisha Yearwood

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The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

Tom Coughlin

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I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Lucinda Williams

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I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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Whenever I grump when the alarm goes off, it's immediately replaced by, 'But I get to leave my office at 11 A.M. and be with my daughter all day.'

Josh Elliott

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I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Anthony Hamilton

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I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

Alice Eve

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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

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