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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God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
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If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
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I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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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.
