Fred Rogers Quotes
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Quotes to Explore
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.
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I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
