Fred Rogers Quotes
Yes, when I was here the first word of the alma mater was 'Men…Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse…' Well, now the first word is 'Dear.' Some things change for the better.
Quotes to Explore
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I can never find the right bras.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
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It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Yes, when I was here the first word of the alma mater was 'Men…Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse…' Well, now the first word is 'Dear.' Some things change for the better.
