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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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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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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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 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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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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It's important to stay current and fresh.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.
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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.
