John Shelton Reed Quotes

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1942

Topics

MusicHistoryFoodPastIdentity

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Jim Messina

HomeLivingRoomLiving RoomSongs

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

Megan Fox

BookRevelationSenseMillionNeeds

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

John Milius

LovedCriticsOutStartedSomething

I think my earliest 'Star Wars' memory that I have was from 'Return of the Jedi.' I distinctly remember the scene with the rancor under Jabba's Palace.

Travis Beacham

MemoryThinkRememberReturnStar

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

Travis Fimmel

WorkManFearlessInspirationCowboy

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Robert Fisk

ManThoughtIllusionYoungYoung Man

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.

Romeo Dallaire

DeathMeThinkEndRunDead

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

Dick Dale

BookGuitarPlayPlayersScale

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.

Dennis Hastert

CommitmentWalkGovernmentLegacyUs

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Dennis Prager

LifeGratitudeThankfulGrateful

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

Douglas Coupland

PassionMeaningBehindSomeCollect

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.

Douglas Conant

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