Harper Reed Quotes

I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision.

Harper Reed

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WorkDecisionExperienceSchoolPlay

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

Jeremy Irons

GreatPressureOpenGreat ThingMuch

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

John McWhorter

GoodMistakesHabitBlackThought

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

Maurizio Cattelan

YouWithoutBeingProofMilitant

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

Michael Chabon

FatherTimeGriefMemorySpeakUp

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

Michael Connelly

PeopleMeWritingCelebrateBook

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

Suki Waterhouse

ClothesYoungTomboyHated

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.

Steven Berkoff

EyesMirrorCultureLieBrainDeep

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Robert Caro

WorkWritingLongLateQuitRealize

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Michelle Obama

LovePatienceWisdomCourageGrace

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

HateDayQueenSayingNameOnly

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Deb Caletti

LoveBeginningWordsIdeasBookYou

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.

Chen Shui-bian

LivePeopleBetterPlaceStriveOur

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