Fred W. Friendly Quotes

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Fred W. Friendly

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• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I often reread books I have written.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Books
  • Written
  • Often

• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Year

• I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Feeling
  • Doing
  • Hands

• Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Me
  • Feel

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Faith

• Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

  

  B. B. King
  • Love
  • Job
  • Road

• The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • History
  • Soviet

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Good
  • Body
  • Write

• As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Think
  • You
  • Cheesy

• Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Help
  • Science

• Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• All are my friends. I have no enemies.

  

  Mahavira
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Happy

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Story
  • Migration

• Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

  

  Poe Ballantine
  • Time
  • Rain

• What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

  

  Fred W. Friendly