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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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
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Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.
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Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
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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.
