Harper Reed Quotes

There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.

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• People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Misconception

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Interesting
  • Waiting
  • First

• I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • motivation

• We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Same

• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Fun
  • Emotional
  • Golf

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • You
  • See

• The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Vision
  • United Nations

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Mind

• Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Experience

• People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Song
  • Mood

• Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Confidence

• There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.

  

  Harper Reed
  • People
  • Minds