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.

Daniel Fried

• Country
• Violence
• Accepting
• Excuse
• Intimidation

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• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • May
  • Man
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Science
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Music
  • Want

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Doing
  • Worst
  • Duty

• Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Opinions
  • Most
  • Scientific

• Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

  

  Hank Ballard
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • School
  • Hope
  • Support

• You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Force
  • Chemistry

• It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • True
  • Team
  • Me

• I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal

• Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix Romantic French painter was able to indicate even in his day.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Period
  • Painting
  • Romantic

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Kids
  • Song
  • Strong

• To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

  

  Martin Lawrence

• 'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

  

  David Farr
  • Family
  • War
  • City

• I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game

• When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

  

  Billie Whitelaw
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Life

• When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Good
  • Country
  • American

• 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.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Country
  • Violence
  • Accepting