Harry Browne Quotes

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Harry Browne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MistakesPeopleFreeCareLearnTry

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

Jessie J

PeopleMeThoughtConfidentLook

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

John McCain

IntegrityCharacterOpportunityTime

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

Robert J. Waldinger

QualityRelationshipsMattersYour

In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that, too.

Travis Kalanick

Make It HappenDisrespectTryingWay

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

Ron Ben-Israel

LifeFoodPersonTrueSuccessful

I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

Liz Torres

GoodFriendNever Give UpHeartLose

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

Janine Shepherd

LifeDayPeopleYouChoiceDown

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

WomenTodayMenMoviesOutCome

At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.

Johnny Depp

MomSheClothingUsedShirtsSteal

I like talking. I like acting.

Denzel Washington

TalkingActingLike

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Clint Eastwood

ConflictDramaIntenseSomeSort

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

William Vickrey

ThinkYouTitanicJustDeckChairs

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