Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
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Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
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I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".
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In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.
