David Harvey Quotes
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'
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London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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I did some theatre straight out of school, and it wasn't anything spectacular at all.
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Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.
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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
