Doug Harvey Quotes
You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.
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I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.
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Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
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In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.
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Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight.
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You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.
