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David Friedman

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."

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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."

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"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."

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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

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"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."

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"I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?"

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"Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving."

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"I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch."

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"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."

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"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
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"In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure."
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"I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that."
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"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."
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"I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent."
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"I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there."
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"Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there."
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"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
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"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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