David Harvey Quotes
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.
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One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. Art should melt into and even merge with nature itself. This is obviously contrary to painting and sculpture based on nature. By so doing, art will rid itself more and more of self-centredness, virtuosity and absurdity.
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Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
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Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.
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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
