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 try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.
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Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.
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Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
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What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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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.
