Milton Friedman Quotes
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Never explain, never complain.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.
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I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.
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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
