Fannie Hurst Quotes
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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The division of the world into two mutually exclusive camps - the City of War and the City of Faith - lies at the heart of Islam's traditional view of existence. Places where Islam rules supreme and its laws are strictly obeyed are known as Dar al-Iman or the City of Faith. The rest of the world is signified under the title of Dar al-Harb or the City of War.
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I think everybody's the same. I think we're all entitled to our space, and I like to treat everybody like that.
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My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
