Jerome Isaac Friedman Quotes
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I'm not a control freak.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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I support same-sex marriage.
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At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.
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Siemens is a job machine.
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
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As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
