Harry Browne Quotes

Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person’s problem, force can be justified to solve anyone’s problem.

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• I think I've got some more big plays left in me.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Me
  • Big

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Live
  • Future
  • Control

• I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Feet

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Light
  • Fashion
  • Try

• There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Against
  • U.S.
  • Within

• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fame
  • Sure
  • Prepared

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• My next baby will be my new record.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Baby
  • New
  • Will

• As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Change
  • Cost
  • Climate Change

• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Sure

• I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

• I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • World
  • Age
  • Feeling

• All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Free

• Ford’s starting point was that the key for effective production is to concentrate on improving the overall flow of products through the operations. His efforts to improve flow were so successful that, by 1926, the lead time from mining the iron ore to having a completed car composed of more than 5,000 parts, on the train ready for delivery, was 81 hours!3 Eighty years later, no car manufacturer in the world has been able to achieve, or even come close, to such a short lead time.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Car
  • Achieve
  • Lead

• I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

  

  Peggy Whitson

• I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Listening

• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Mood
  • Correction
  • Fundamentalists

• So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.

  

  Kirsten Green

• Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person’s problem, force can be justified to solve anyone’s problem.

  

  Harry Browne