Harper Reed Quotes
I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
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I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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I love Lena Dunham. I love, love, love her.
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The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.
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There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.
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The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.
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Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.
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I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.
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I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.
