Edwin H. Friedman Quotes
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
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I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
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One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
