#ten

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #i do #myself #often #realize

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ↗

— David Friedman

#advisor #got #i #kill #letter

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. ↗

— Don Marquis

#had #listen #many #optimists #person

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. ↗

— David Friedman

#came #deeply #difficult #extremely #i

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

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bouncing #even #financial #life #life is a

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#create #good #good intentions #harmless #intentions

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

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#group #i #kids #public #public school

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better