Daniel Fried Quotes
Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
Daniel Fried
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Os Guinness
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
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I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
Lev Grossman
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Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
Pamela Meyer
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No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
Sigrid Undset
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. Applegate
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Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
Daniel Fried