Fred Rogers Quotes
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.
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If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
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Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.
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Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
