Milton Friedman Quotes
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Quotes to Explore
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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My father is my inspiration.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.
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Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
