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(AP) -- Quotes from Fred Rogers, host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," from Associated Press interviews.
"People say to my wife, `What's he like?' What you see is what you get. It's just who I happen to be."
"I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self."
"Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs."
"I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit."
"You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable."
"I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times."
"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes."
"There's a generous current in the American spirit. And if we can simply give voice to that once in a while, I think it's a good message."
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