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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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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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 thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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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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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
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Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever
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The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.
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Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
