Robert Reed quote: "I don't know if I am simply anything, but I have never felt drawn up into any sub-field or splinter genre. Not a good strategy for a career, I think."

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never be...
ROBERT REED

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be differen...
ROBERT REED

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel th...
ROBERT REED

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
ROBERT REED

The old restaurant, College Street Station, was really here to serve the hotel guests, and it wasn't...
ROBERT REED

We are of course working on the environmental side of things but right now we are still concentratin...
ROBERT REED

We have confirmed at least 20 rigs or platforms missing, either sunk or adrift, and one confirmed fi...
ROBERT REED

It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was su...
ROBERT REED

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
SCOTT REED

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to...
REED HASTINGS

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today'...
JACK REED

There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the ...
SAM REED

I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far...
SAM REED

I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
SAM REED

The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact th...
JACK REED

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. Bu...
JACK REED

Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get...
JACK REED

It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted again...
JACK REED

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibi...
JACK REED

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Securi...
JACK REED

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the require...
JACK REED

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It...
JACK REED

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
JACK REED

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goa...
JACK REED

The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
JACK REED

The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the b...
JACK REED

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to o...
JACK REED

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that...
JACK REED

We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been kill...
JACK REED

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liq...
JACK REED

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary ...
DOUGLAS REED

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED

If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED

I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED

Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED

What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
OLIVER REED

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. The...
OLIVER REED

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
OLIVER REED

I like the effect drink has on me.
OLIVER REED

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn'...
OLIVER REED

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
OLIVER REED

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
OLIVER REED

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure ever...
OLIVER REED

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
OLIVER REED

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
OLIVER REED

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. An...
OLIVER REED

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummat...
OLIVER REED

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman ...
OLIVER REED

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now ...
OLIVER REED

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
REED HASTINGS

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the brow...
REED HASTINGS

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.
REED HASTINGS

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
REED HASTINGS

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic...
REED HASTINGS

You can buy ice cream for two cans and hamburger and chips for six cans.
ALAN REED

I'm so excited. I can't wait to get involved.
ALAN REED

I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a h...
ALAN REED

We take people on horse drawn rides through the corrals and through our processing plant to see how ...
ALAN REED

We think it's something that really helps the community and those down on their luck.
ALAN REED

People ask us all year long when we're going to have family day, and it's tomorrow.
ALAN REED

It's something I enjoy doing, believe it or not. Some of us are masochists. Just kidding.
ALAN REED

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable ...
REED HASTINGS

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become g...
REED HASTINGS

My mom's the strongest, boldest woman I know.
NIKKI REED

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, hone...
DONNA REED

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you&...
NIKKI REED

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
LOU REED

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Port...
NIKKI REED

With a definite, step-by-step plan -- ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each ...
SCOTT REED

As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and p...
SCOTT REED

I do not live in the world of sobriety.
OLIVER REED

To know is to control.
SCOTT REED

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends...
SCOTT REED

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
LOU REED

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
REX REED

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.
SCOTT REED

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
LOU REED

An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.
ALAN REED

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."
DONNA REED

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success
WILLIS REED

The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding th...
REED HUNDT

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
LOU REED

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another...
JACK REED

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network s...
REED HUNDT

I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's mor...
NIKKI REED

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don&...
NIKKI REED

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
OLIVER REED

President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't cr...
JACK REED

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of s...
LOU REED

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
REED HASTINGS

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I c...
LOU REED

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' af...
LOU REED

Spirit divine, attend our prayers. And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious p...
ANDREW REED

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are ...
ISHMAEL REED

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.
LOU REED

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
LOU REED

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that o...
HENRY REED

You suddenly lay on wigs and jewelry and costumes, and sometimes I feel incredibly . . . tied down. ...
ANGELA REED

I have to find where characters live in my body,
ANGELA REED

Thought I would come down and offer my support.
ANGELA REED

[Her death scene, by contrast, has been liberating.] I have on just a very simple smock and it feels...
ANGELA REED

Being a lady gets her what she wants, which is the attention and admiration of very wealthy men.
ANGELA REED

I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha...
CRYSTAL REED

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools...
REED HASTINGS

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
LOU REED

I hope to work a few years to get some experience and then I will probably get my bachelor's degree.
ASHLEY REED

I've been trying to tell him about all the little things that you have to deal with as battalion com...
ASHLEY REED

Do what you are told, and it will be a good year.
ASHLEY REED

My favorite part of the year was planning the military ball and hanging the decorations.
ASHLEY REED

I was shocked and I didn't expect us to score that high. He said we were one of the best ones he had...
ASHLEY REED

Having a lot of us back is going to help. We've done great this season with the team we have, so it'...
ASHLEY REED

Our focus is going out and doing the best we can. We want to be in the top two and keep improving fr...
ASHLEY REED

Utah was ranked ahead of us, but we knew we were better.
ASHLEY REED

We know we're a good team. We went out and proved it.
ASHLEY REED

We were really excited coming into this meet because we knew they were ranked ahead of us, but we kn...
ASHLEY REED

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatev...
LOU REED

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven&#...
NIKKI REED

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones with...
NIKKI REED

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of t...
JOHN REED

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for u...
HENRY REED

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation...
HENRY REED

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floo...
RICKY REED

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so ma...
REED HASTINGS

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the...
LOU REED

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
LOU REED

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You coul...
LOU REED

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart....
NIKKI REED

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very im...
LOU REED

Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on...
AMY REED

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly t...
LOU REED

Let's stop arguing about it, let's pass the president's plan ... more prosecutors, more after-school...
BRUCE REED

A gun buyback program is a simple, common-sense way to give communities the chance to take guns off ...
BRUCE REED

[Reed said the delays give companies like his the motivation and opportunity to look more closely at...
BRUCE REED

Those of us who are not lucky enough to get the preview beta are still sitting here wondering if Lot...
BRUCE REED

That undermines local control more than any Democrat would ever dream of.
BRUCE REED

The reconstruction, massive as it is, is really the easy part. Rebuilding confidence, especially amo...
BRUCE REED

This disaster is the best chance the nation has had since the 1960s to take on urban problems with t...
BRUCE REED

We've got to win in the heartland of America, ... Democrats are more liberal than the country as a w...
BRUCE REED

Smith & Wesson set a standard, ... We consider it a floor, not a ceiling.
BRUCE REED

We've stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from getting their hands on guns, ... And the m...
BRUCE REED

Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155 To worship effectively is to enable men to b...
BRUCE REED

If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act ...
RICKY REED

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true ev...
JAIME REED

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit ...
JAIME REED

It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a...
JAIME REED

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing ei...
JAIME REED

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all th...
JAIME REED

I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, th...
JAIME REED

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.
JAIME REED

You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of wh...
JAIME REED

My boyfriend, who I love to death - he's only 17 so he's the youngest guy I've ever date...
NIKKI REED

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my repl...
ISHMAEL REED

If I had more confidence, I would rock a crop top.
NIKKI REED

Goal number one is to come back and get everybody involved and let them know our goal is to work wit...
BRIAN REED

Randy was saying that he hadn't won a championship since he left Marshall and that (the '96 title) w...
BRIAN REED

More power to you as the consumer if we can help you negotiate a lower rate,
BRIAN REED

We are pleased to see customers such as PalmSource, Spartech, and Weatherford taking the reigns of t...
BRIAN REED

We have so much material that it is actually crippling.
BRIAN REED

We met a lot of people there who we tried to contact [afterward], but we haven't been able to.
BRIAN REED

It was so life-changing,
BRIAN REED

The idea was to talk to people about the pursuit of happiness without actually [pointedly] interview...
BRIAN REED

The early birth of it came for us in sixth grade. We were talking about how nice it would be to trav...
BRIAN REED

There was just a need. Nothing was available in Springfield for a lot of people who want to downsize...
BILL REED

They're strong at two and three (singles). We have a lot of options and this is one of our options a...
BILL REED

I'm the kind of person who likes to investigate for myself.
BILL REED

In the past I've had to call people at home and tell them to bring their score card in.
BILL REED

We're looking to some tough competition this weekend at our LeRoy Classic and next week with Chester...
BILL REED

Definitely, it's a good idea. I'd prefer to see it two weeks before districts instead of eight days ...
BILL REED

I think Josh would have cruised if he would have won that first set up 4-1. But that's why you play ...
BILL REED

It turns out that the market worked out, ... One of the movers, for instance, said they would move a...
BILL REED

Like I've been telling the guys, we need to put three meets together like we wrestled Valley, at con...
BILL REED

This is a tough round. I think we wrestled hard. We got into bad position.
BILL REED

Crooks! Thieves! Hang ?em all!.
BOB REED

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team conside...
BOB REED

Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fictio...
BOB REED

We got behind and had to foul them, and they nailed their free throws. We cut a 17-point lead down.
BOB REED

And when we have been out practicing on the course we are wearing three turtlenecks and a jacket. It...
BOB REED

One of the keys to it is treating everybody with dignity and respect - he treated all of his employe...
BOB REED

I think if they lowered the tolls it'd make a big difference. That's the kicker.
BOB REED

You need to be hitting it to a green with a flag stick, not a bucket. I mean, it helps that we can h...
BOB REED

They are heated bays, but they aren't that heated. They don't get that warm when it's 8 degrees outs...
BOB REED

Bill Howard tried his best to keep it from happening. There was really no one to blame.
BOB REED

We're seeing people from different social groups who've never come in before, who don't know what to...
BONNIE REED

The thing that's really scary is now that we're out of the cold weather rule, a lot of the people we...
BONNIE REED

Oh my goodness, we've just been inundated. Since March 28, I've assisted 53 people, and that doesn't...
BONNIE REED

Oh, that was because they broke into my home, illegally without a search warrant. It happened very e...
BONNIE REED

This an animal abuse case. This is pure and simple murder.
BONNIE REED

We need to identify those places where we could put large numbers of people.
BONNIE REED

We are prepared but we are learning a lot from what happened. It puts us on notice to do a better jo...
BONNIE REED

We already had an advantage over New York and Louisiana. We have the ability to call in resources an...
BONNIE REED

Communications is always where you fail in any disaster. It's something we need to really focus on.
BONNIE REED

I'm having people come in every day. I've seen three people today, all families with children, who c...
BONNIE REED

If you stuff those feelings down, it's like a pressure cooker. We help them develop an understanding...
CAROL REED

We have a mad room where they can work off anger or frustrations, a lot of crafts and self-expressio...
CAROL REED

That's ridiculous. We reported every contribution and every expenditure for the period.
CAROL REED

I don't know if I am simply anything, but I have never felt drawn up into any sub-field or splinter genre. Not a good strategy for a career, I think.

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I don't know if I am simply anything, but I have never felt drawn up into any sub-field or splinter genre. Not a good strategy for a career, I think.

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