Edgar Friedenberg Quotes

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Edgar Friedenberg

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• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Need
  • Euthanasia

• It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Women
  • School

• I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Dream
  • Community
  • Office

• They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Mind
  • Lose
  • Grow

• The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • World
  • She
  • Nature

• There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

  

  Peter Cushing
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

  

  Dinah Sheridan

• I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Career

• I want to live fast and die young.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Live
  • Die

• Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Bible

• My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Work
  • Music
  • Trying

• The first 'Blade Runner' is a cool movie. It's a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

  

  Lydia Leonard
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Learning
  • Individuality
  • Nuisance