Frederick Buechner Quotes
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
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When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
