Fred Rogers Quotes
It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.
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I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.
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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
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It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
