Frederick Buechner Quotes
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I'm evangelical.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
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I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own...
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
