David Friedman Quotes
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a Buddhist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Rather than shutting down free speech, we need to broaden it, to make it possible for young people to say even the things we dislike so we can talk them down. And we need politicians to articulate a picture of the future that includes all of us. Not British values but shared human values.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
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More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.
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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
