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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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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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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I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that?
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
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You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.
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If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.
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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.
