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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #black #clad #clean #colour

I'll sign anything except bad legislation. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bad #except #i #legislation #sign

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government #many #more #much #people

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#am #any #circumstances #cutting #excuse

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#anytime #depend #evolution #future #going

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#began #being #came #companies #era

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. ↗

— Anna Friel

#being #brain #empowerment #feeling #forget