Harvey Gantt Quotes
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.
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The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him.
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As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.
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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
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I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.
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I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.
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The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
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We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?
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I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
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When politics is interesting, people go vote.
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If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.
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Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.
