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

• 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

• 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

• If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Good

• You talk like they don’t kick dreams around downtown.

  

  Langston Hughes

• Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief)'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone,And none was left to love in all the world.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Reading

• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Interesting

• You want to sing this song. And so it goes on until eventually, after - well, however long it can take - sometimes a few days, sometimes months - you piece the whole thing together.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Long
  • Together
  • Song

• I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Remember
  • Understand

• 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