Yaron Brook Quotes
Money is what allowed the division of labor to extend beyond the confines of a small town to cities, nations, and ultimately the entire world.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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On the religious themes of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.**Interview with Revolver Magazine, March 2013.
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Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.
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The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
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What luck have I? I don’t suppose you’ll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself - you haven’t any chance to make money with a father like that.
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.
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Money is what allowed the division of labor to extend beyond the confines of a small town to cities, nations, and ultimately the entire world.
