Jerome Isaac Friedman Quotes
Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.

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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
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There is a secret hippie within me.
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
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Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.