Harry Browne Quotes
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
