Milton Friedman Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
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Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
