David Friedman Quotes
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I like sitting close to windows.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.
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I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
