Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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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.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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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.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
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I want to live fast and die young.
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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.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
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I'm the 'Scandal'-'Nashville' kind of TV watcher.
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Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.
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The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
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Learning difficulties are a cover for rich parents with dumb kids...That's why 'Pinch' Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, is alleged to have dyslexia - because he's retarded.
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Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
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So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
