Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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Those who love the young best stay young longer.
