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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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'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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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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There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’
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But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan... We will defend ourselves on every front, defensively and offensively.
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Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
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I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.
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Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
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The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
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Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
