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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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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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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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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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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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.
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Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
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The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)
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You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
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There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
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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.
