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 find myself saying 'sorry' for things I shouldn't be sorry for, haha.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time. We would go to games in the '80s. It was a good time to fall in love with football when your team was unstoppable.
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Watching soccer is very sexy. Small pads, shorts, good legs, and they usually don't have mangled faces. Also, all the good ones have rad accents.
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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.
