David Friedman Quotes
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.David Friedman
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty -
Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
Mae Jemison -
That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
Zach Galifianakis -
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann -
I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
Earl Butz -
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
Kaki King
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
Frances Farmer -
I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
Paige VanZant -
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov -
To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy -
I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen -
I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
Dane Cook -
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
Sam Harris -
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White -
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme
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I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.
Chris Moneymaker -
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.
Kristen Stewart -
I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
Duncan Jones -
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
B. B. King -
Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.
Patty Jenkins -
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
David Friedman