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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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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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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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
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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.
