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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• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

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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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• I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

  

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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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• We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.

  

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• When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

  

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• My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.

  

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• For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

  

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• For many people in the music conservatory world, the message was always, Focus! 'You can't do everything; you really need to specialize.' And especially at an early age, I ignored this advice.

  

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• Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

  

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• Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

  

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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.

  

  Harper Reed
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  • Engineers
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