Harry Browne Quotes
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Midi is my hobby.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.
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Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in my career.
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I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
