David Harvey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
-
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
-
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.
-
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
-
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.
-
Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
-
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.
-
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?'
-
The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.
-
As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.
-
In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.
-
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
