David Friedman Quotes

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

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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.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Army
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Better
  • Behavior

• 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.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Challenges

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Tired
  • View

• 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.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Live
  • Free

• In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

  

  Amory Lovins

• A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Free
  • Ignorance

• But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Inspiration
  • Legacy
  • Example

• 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.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real

• I'm a nudist at heart.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Heart

• Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

  

  Pierre Dukan

• It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Decision

• It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. This is as close as it can be without being a tie.

  

  Gary Player
  • Race
  • Yards
  • Mile

• The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Energy
  • Effort

• There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

  

  Lois Lowry

• Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

  

  Lenny Santos Aventura
  • Letting Go
  • Holding On

• I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

  

  David Friedman