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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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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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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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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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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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
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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.
