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.Frederick Buechner
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
Karan Mahajan -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
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?
Olivia Wilde
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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.
Dani Shapiro -
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
Halston Sage -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman -
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.
Jack Nicklaus -
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
Edith Head -
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.
Garry Trudeau -
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.
Laura Ingraham -
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.
Edgar Wright -
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld -
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.
David Ignatius -
A guy who didn’t have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn’t know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn’t. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.
Donald Trump -
I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.
Kristen Stewart -
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
Aaron Sanchez -
...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
Bhagat Singh -
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
Frederick Buechner