David Harsanyi Quotes
Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.
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The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.
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Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.
