David Alan Harvey Quotes
The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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At that time my heart was all brokeI looked like ashes and smelled like smoke.And I turned away from my loving kindTry to leave my body and live in my mind.But it's much too much emotionTo hold it in your hand.They've got waves out on the oceanThey're gonna wear away the land.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?
