David Friedman Quotes
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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When I die, I want to come back as me.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
