Daniel Fried Quotes
At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.
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At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
