Doug Harvey Quotes

There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Career

• I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Why
  • Guy

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Military

• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Study
  • Struggle

• I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • America
  • Funny
  • Always

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Trying
  • Look
  • Golf

• Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Children
  • Sometimes
  • Forget

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Politics
  • Identity
  • Opportunities

• Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • World
  • Music
  • Live

• Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.

  

  Erin Siegal McIntyre
  • World
  • Whatever
  • Agency

• Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.

  

  Lee Norris
  • Good

• I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.

  

  Adam West
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Light

• There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Moments