Fred W. Friendly Quotes

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

Fred W. Friendly

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• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Body
  • Tough
  • Skating

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• Every religion there's something foul going on.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Religion
  • Something
  • Going

• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Game
  • Always

• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Detail

• The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Review

• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Hope
  • You

• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Hate
  • Easy

• What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Man
  • Beauty

• I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Live
  • Think
  • Myself

• I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Husband

• International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Important
  • Peace

• Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Night
  • Single
  • Day

• A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Financial
  • Rules
  • Crisis

• As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Period

• It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • King
  • Fool

• I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

  

  Leonard Slatkin

• What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Driving
  • Grow

• Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Enough
  • Praise
  • Dignity

• A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

  

  Fred W. Friendly