Edgar Friedenberg Quotes

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Edgar Friedenberg

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Opinion
  • Games

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• 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?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Nothing

• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Football
  • Cricket

• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Be Careful

• I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Funny
  • Better
  • Girlfriend

• When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Mother
  • Night
  • College

• I got high on psychedelics before I was ever drunk. I never smoked. Then LSD came by. And to me it was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened... And, of course, the best drugs ever were manufactured by the government.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • High
  • Drunk

• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Intuition
  • Conclusion
  • Deduction

• Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Believe
  • Loneliness
  • Buddhism

• Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Way
  • Win
  • Safe

• Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Monopoly