Fred Eychaner Quotes
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
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I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
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Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I am not the progressive Koch brother.
