Milton Friedman Quotes

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Day
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Back
  • Watch
  • Top

• Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Film

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Light
  • Simple

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Space

• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • House
  • Jazz
  • Saturday

• All are my friends. I have no enemies.

  

  Mahavira
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Characters
  • Many

• On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Los Angeles. It was so hectic. I remember changing in my car before I went in to read.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Car

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

  

  Peter Straub
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Food

• Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

  

  John Mott
  • Great
  • Political
  • Religious

• Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Political
  • Government
  • Desert