Daniel Fried Quotes

Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Children
  • Trying

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Men
  • Mad

• The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Lies
  • Defeated
  • Empire

• I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Always
  • Stage
  • Sense

• Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Sex

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying

• Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

  

  Diplo
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
  • Men
  • Art
  • Training

• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Die
  • Wish
  • Understanding

• I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Time
  • Theatre

• So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Thinking

• My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • World
  • Relationship

• I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

  

  Lizz Winstead
  • Why
  • Reading
  • Smart

• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Culture
  • Enemy
  • Army

• Our mistakes, blunders, flaws, and shortcomings notwithstanding, the world America made after 1945 and 1989 has enjoyed the longest period of general peace in the west since Roman times, and decades of prosperity.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Prosperity