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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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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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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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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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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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.
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The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
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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.
