David Friedman Quotes
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
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One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
