David D. Friedman Quotes
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
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I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don't already exist, and see the world through someone else's eyes.
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
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A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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Our objective is always to win. Every day, every game, and every competition.
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Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.
