Harry Browne Quotes

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Harry Browne

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Control

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • High
  • Brain

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Marriage
  • Honest
  • Gamble

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Think

• To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Music

• Having sisters is the best. I have a different relationship with each of them. I go to Kim for fashion advice, Khloe is always boy and family advice, and Kourtney is like another mother to me.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Different
  • Family
  • Mother

• Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Control
  • Government