Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
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Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.
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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
