Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.
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I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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There are at least five activities that must be kept in balance through proper time management. This is not easy for a busy executive with significant responsibilities, especially in this world of “information overload.” These five activities are: the job, physical fitness, personal time alone, recreation, and social relationships. Also, if they apply, two others—religion and family. If any of these get out of balance, then life gets out of balance. From my own personal experience and observation of others, being a workaholic is the most common area of imbalance...
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
