John Shelton Reed Quotes

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

John Shelton Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
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  • Birth: 1942

Topics

GoodPeopleQuestionsPlaceLiving

My conscience is clear.

Jim Lehrer

ConscienceClear

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jim Crace

WordsThinkYouSprayHeardBeetle

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

Jessye Norman

HumbleI AmProudMoreDoctorateAm

O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.

Jerry Reinsdorf

DayThinkBrooklynWrongLandRight

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

John Catsimatidis

SadPeopleNobodyDestroyDestroys

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

Rob Lowe

YourselfComedyYouKnowSeriously

Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.

Martin Rees

IceOwnAgreeHappenedDifferently

If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

Jay-Z

GoodBetterYouConnectionBornSay

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Jason Schwartzman

HateThinkSeeingNowDrummerMail

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

Diane von Furstenberg

StrengthMotherCourageStyleMyself

I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.'

Claire Foy

GodCharacterThinkDoingYouWant

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

Bonnie McKee

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