Harper Reed Quotes
The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.
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I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
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Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
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A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
