Frederick Buechner Quotes
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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A picture is poem without words.
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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
