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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.


Salma Hayek

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FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsc...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually infla...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisf...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enfor...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsm...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitt...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been e...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK