Harper Quotes

• The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

  Beth Orton

  Couple, Marijuana, Light

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Political

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• I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

  Ben Harper

  House, Records, Bass

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• If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

  Margaret Trudeau

  Charity, Shirts, Not Sure

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• Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

  Jack Layton

  Wells

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• The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.

  Anna Sui

  Bible, Fashion, Vogue Magazine

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• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  Tammin Sursok

  Jewels, Listening, Dido

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  Nancy Grace

  Mockingbird, Prized Possessions, Kill A Mockingbird

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• I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.

  Charles Frazier

  New York, Nice, Book

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• I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

  Chris Crutcher

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

  Molly Ivins

  Fashion, Reading, Clothes

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• Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Brother, May, Welcome

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

  Elizabeth I

  Found

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• I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made.

  Warren MacKenzie

  New York, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row.

  Scott Snyder

  Writing, Creating, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• [Duke] is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask, and that makes her interesting. She'll show up and help Batman, but she never wants to know if he's Bruce Wayne.

  Scott Snyder

  Character, Interesting, Way

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• After the second chapter of Days of Obligation, which is about the death of a friend of mine from AIDS, was published in Harper's, I got this rather angry letter from a gay-and-lesbian group that was organizing a protest against the magazine. It was the same old problem: political groups have almost no sense of irony.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Gay, Political, Death Of A Friend

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.

  Wayne Flynt

  Teacher, School, Icons

  "Harper Lee Remembered As Reclusive". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.

  Wayne Flynt

  America, Cities, Southern

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• I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."

  Wayne Flynt

  Mind, Stories, Littles

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