Aimee Friedman Quotes
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.
Quotes to Explore
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.
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Before the election, I reported on a story about a counterintelligence officer from another service sending reports to the FBI saying that his sources in Russia were saying that Moscow tried for years to cultivate and co-opt Donald Trump. I'm not saying that happened. I'm saying I hope the FBI took a strong look, because it is really hard to believe that a president-elect would be so callous in how he approaches this issue and so dismissive of the seriousness of it.
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I firmly believe that what makes you sexy & beautiful is not the size of your body or the color lipstick you have on. What really makes you sexy is what you project - your confidence & your self-awareness.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.
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By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.
