Johan Norberg Quotes

#1. A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.

Ted Allen

#2. We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Michael Moorcock

#4. Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Johan Norberg

#5. The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

Johan Norberg

#6. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.

Giles Duley

#7. Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Johan Norberg

#8. We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

Sarah Sutton

#9. I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

Michelle Moran

#10. Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other ...

Nikolai Berdyaev

#11. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.

Johan Norberg

#12. Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Johan Norberg

#13. Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Johan Norberg

#14. I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life's great motivators, and my success would be my revenge

Ann Patchett

#15. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed,

Anthony Burgess

#16. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Jacques Barzun

#17. When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

Larry King

#18. I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo ... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.

Jon Stewart

#20. I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

Sigourney Weaver