Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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我们需要的是热烈而镇定的情绪，紧张而有秩序的工作。
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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It quieted pain and sorrow,Like love overcoming strife;It seemed the harmonious echoFrom our discordant life.
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No matter how you handle alcohol at your wedding, you will most likely be upsetting someone.
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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.
