Eric Friedman Quotes
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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Her mother called to her. She said, 'Where are you going, Flora Belle?' Flora didn't answer her. She never answered her mother when she called her Flora Belle. Sometimes she didn't answer her mother when she called her Flora either.
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I was interested in being present for its first, and I trust only, performance.
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The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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“The husk of a man in the woods below me bled into a creek that fed into a river that sparkled gaily in the winter sun.”
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That was the end of snowboarding at Mad River Glen.
