L.A. Reid Quotes

A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

It's great to hear someone really care for the soprano saxophone.

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch’s playing! I have always loved that about him.

In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.

France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.

If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, "The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT." Then he said, "Of course, I've been saying that for 20 years."

When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

Love is not being judged.

The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

There are opportunities out there for everyone, always. This truly inspires me.

When I exercise, I feel better, emotionally and physically.

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

I know this sounds ridiculous but I like guys with love handles. I hate a washboard stomach - that does not turn me on.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey when I get tickled - woo-hoo!

The worst thing I ever did is dance on the table.

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

I really have learned to trust myself in business and in my own life.

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

I just couldn't live without dogs

It is a very vulnerable feeling to lose something very close to your heart or someone very dear to you.

I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

I would want forever with you.