Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Woody Allen on Woody Allen
“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”
As quoted in The 100 Greatest Heroes (2003) p. 60 by Harry Paul Jeffers
2000s
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Q&A after Columbia speech, 24 September 2007, when asked about executions of homosexuals in Iran
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“When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.”
Robert Kagan book Of Paradise and Power
Alternate version: If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
Of Paradise and Power, p. 26
According to Kagan, this is a variation of the proverb "When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails." (p. 25 of the same book)