David Harsanyi Quotes

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

David Harsanyi

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• When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

  

  Randy Couture
  • People
  • Reality
  • Crazy

• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Very
  • Clear

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Reality

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • People
  • God
  • Reality

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Environment

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Democracy

• Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Live
  • Real

• If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

  

  Bridget Riley
  • Time
  • Reality

• It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true - his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Real
  • Power
  • True

• The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • Hate

• We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Car
  • Research

• Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Reality
  • Democracy