Frederic Bastiat Quotes

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Frederic Bastiat

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
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• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
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• Don't classify me, read me.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
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  • Treat

• Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Fun
  • Sometimes
  • Humor

• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • True
  • Brain
  • Fact

• If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Evil

• I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Experience
  • Psychology

• Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.

  

  Ani DiFranco
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• When the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

  

  Chuck Jones
  • Up

• I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Done
  • Death
  • Simple

• I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.

  

  Lewis Black
  • House
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  • Fishing

• History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Work
  • America
  • History

• And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

  

  Debra Wilson

• Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • America
  • Rumors

• In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.

  

  Om Malik
  • Growing
  • Forever

• The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Real
  • Question

• In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Up

• When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

  

  Polly Bergen

• The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• It's just another week to me. All I've got to deal with is the harness.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Week
  • Deal
  • Harness

• Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

  

  Frederic Bastiat