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.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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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.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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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.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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I still don't get golf.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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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.
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
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We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different.
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You simply cannot drive forward if you’re focused on what’s happening in the rear view mirror.
