Nat Friedman Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Three technical aspects of thermonuclear weapons have made thermonuclear war a peril to the very existence of humanity. These aspects are: the enormous destructive power of a thermonuclear explosion, the relative cheapness of rocket-thermonuclear weapons, and the practical impossibility of an effective defense against a massive rocket-nuclear attack.
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I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
