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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• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• 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.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Body
  • Place
  • Need

• 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.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Mind
  • End
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Me
  • President
  • Excuse

• 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.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Individual

• 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.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Opinion
  • Alien

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

  

  Keegan Allen
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Training

• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Freedom

• I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Trying
  • Collaborative

• To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Mean

• I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

  

  David Friedman
  • Writing
  • Song