Larry Harvey Quotes
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
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It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.
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A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
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A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.