Frederick Buechner Quotes
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in the jacuzzi - we weren't old enough - so I would charge people $1, and everyone would line up, and everyone would sit in this disgusting hot water-sand-filled thing, and I would get $1 and go to the snack bar and get an Oreo.
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How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.
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You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
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I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.
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I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
