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'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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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
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Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.
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I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.
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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
