Edgar Friedenberg Quotes

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Edgar Friedenberg

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• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Power
  • Society
  • Political

• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Want
  • You
  • Never

• Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Children
  • Control

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Faith
  • Question
  • Government

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • World
  • Guy

• Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Lead

• The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American

• You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.

  

  Amanda Pays
  • Way
  • Materials
  • Wood

• Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence

• A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Heaven
  • Ideas
  • Flower

• Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Kind
  • Eye
  • Painting

• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Scene
  • Real World
  • Adapted

• You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Judgment
  • Customers
  • Feature

• Since you left, Leon, the valet, is always drunk, the rice is undercooked, and my underwear is being stolen. I will come to get you and marry you in any country in the world and you'll arrange a lovely room for me, but without a cask with a golden spigot, because that's been stolen, too. I'm not writing anymore. I'm making my mother cry because I'm in despair. Our separation is driving me mad.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Country
  • Despair
  • Left

• When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Play
  • Hear
  • Again

• What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Valuable
  • Decide