David Harsanyi Quotes

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

David Harsanyi

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Think
  • You

• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Death
  • Purpose

• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Follow

• The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • World
  • City

• Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Day

• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Logic

• This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Man
  • Suffering

• We didn't shoot in 3-D. They've talked about doing a conversion and there's been a lot of talk about us doing 'Sucker Punch' in 3-D, but I'm still waiting to see.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Waiting
  • Doing
  • Talk

• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Voice
  • Humble
  • Artists

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Space
  • Travel

• I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Challenge
  • Destiny

• No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.

  

  Damon Knight
  • World
  • Moral
  • Progress

• The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.'

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Science
  • Culture

• I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.

  

  Katy Perry
  • God
  • Remember

• Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Control
  • Ego
  • Artists

• I don't want to get ahead at the expense of somebody else. I don't even want to be the center of attention - I mean, yes, I made the movie and I can do all these things, but I don't want to always keep being in the middle of it. I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community. I don't know.

  

  Noel Wells
  • Community
  • Attention
  • Creative

• The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Deal
  • Workforce

• The mind doesn't know anything about age, your subconscious mind knows nothing about time or space. And so, I am hanging around young people all the time and I operate like they do. I don't think of myself as being old.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Space
  • Subconscious
  • Operate

• Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

  

  Edgar Pangborn
  • Children
  • Exercise
  • Occupation

• When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

  

  David Harsanyi