Milton Friedman Quotes

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Like
  • First
  • Felt

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Learning

• I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Consciousness

• How can German music not be represented by an article?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Music
  • German
  • How

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Work
  • Different
  • Women

• I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Dream

• Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Life
  • Country
  • Peace

• A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Energy
  • Tangled

• You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Good

• I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Remember
  • High

• An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good

• I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Why
  • Political
  • Marriage

• You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Poverty
  • Cures
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