Frederick Buechner Quotes
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
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While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
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We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.
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The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.
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The Court must have ministers : the attornies are its ministers.
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Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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You need to cut a few things out if you want to be the best you can be.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
