David Friedman Quotes
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
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In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
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Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
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I'm a nudist at heart.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.
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Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.
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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
