Fred Rogers Quotes
Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
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Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
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I have never lived in a time when people haven't told me what I look like.
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Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
