Harry Browne Quotes

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

Harry Browne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1933 - March 1, 2006

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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

Jesmyn Ward

HistoryThinkBlindPresentUnited

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

Andrew Mason

SmartThinkMatureOthersSomething

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

John Hench

TimeOptimismDirectionDrivingDown

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

John W. Snow

GoodBestEnergyThinkShortNow

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.

Sullivan Stapleton

DietHighProteinLowKeep

I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning.

Robert Webb

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I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.

Lucy Dacus

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I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

Loudon Wainwright III

FunnyMeSongInterestingYouKind

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

Joyce Carol Oates

LifeHeartNew YorkChildMeThink

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

Boz Scaggs

ThinkBetterShortBecomeSinger

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia

WordsSayNeverThey SayAlways

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

Anthony Hopkins

ChildFriendsNeverLonerBeenMuch

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