Milton Friedman Quotes

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

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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.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Doing
  • Problems
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Opinion

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• 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.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Health
  • Quality

• I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Communication
  • Humor

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• 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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Gay
  • Surprise

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• 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.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• 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.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Money
  • Kids
  • You

• Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Shoulders
  • Donkey
  • Tread

• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mirror
  • Memory
  • Judgment

• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Character
  • Friends

• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  

  Richard Trumka
  • Environmental
  • Standards
  • Regulations

• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Politics
  • Judging
  • Results