David Friedman Quotes
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
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I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.
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Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
