Harper Reed Quotes

In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Evil
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Person

• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Change

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• Imagination creates some big monsters.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Imagination
  • Big
  • Monsters

• I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Science

• Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Freedom
  • Ruin
  • Brings

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Film
  • Travel
  • Meetings

• When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Father
  • Want
  • Problem

• I don't believe in murder.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Believe

• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Society
  • Water

• Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • God
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

  

  Saxby Chambliss
  • Vote
  • Judicial
  • Filibuster

• I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Friendship
  • Democrat
  • Donations

• Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • God
  • Pain
  • Realizing

• In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

  

  Harper Reed
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