John Stossel Quotes
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
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I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
