Doug Harvey Quotes
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
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We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
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If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
