David Harvey Quotes
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was renting it, and I asked the owners if I could buy it, and they were really nice and let me work out a deal. And I fixed it up and later sold it. That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money.
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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
