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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Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally indolent, this possibility constitutes a dire fault.
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The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
