David Harvey Quotes
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
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Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
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I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
