Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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I think it certainly is the responsibility of the rich to support and regenerate society.
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I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
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I can be prickly and difficult on set.
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A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.
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I have travelled across the universe through the years to find her. Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
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Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
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The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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I can assure the American people that the men and women of the FBI, starting from the director, all the way on down, are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs.
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
