Steve Harvey (Broderick Stephen Harvey) Quotes

You simply cannot drive forward if you’re focused on what’s happening in the rear view mirror.

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• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Modern

• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Business
  • Never
  • Ugly

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Think

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Space
  • Math

• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Strong

• You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Dance
  • Ballet

• I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • Time
  • Song
  • Faith

• Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • Power
  • Sin
  • Grow

• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Familiar
  • Balanced

• I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Relationship
  • Mirror

• You simply cannot drive forward if you’re focused on what’s happening in the rear view mirror.

  

  Steve Harvey
  • Mirror
  • Forward
  • Happening