Harper Reed Quotes

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

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• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• You can't tag me as a regional actress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Me
  • Actress

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Face
  • Obstacles
  • Stand

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Never
  • Enough

• There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Done
  • Doubt
  • Apple

• One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Action
  • Passion
  • Taken

• I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Death
  • Pain

• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  

  James Cameron
  • World
  • Sun
  • Magic

• I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Different

• All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• What does a house want to be?

  

  Louis Kahn
  • House

• As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Career
  • Science
  • Technology

• My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Parents
  • Technology