Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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Good design is good business.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.
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Those who love the young best stay young longer.
