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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G.I. Joe is not shown in Korea at all, basically, so a lot of people didn't know about G.I. Joe and I also didn't have the information about G.I. Joe.
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Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
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We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
