Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
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You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
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I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
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I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.
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Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.
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The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
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I make clothes; women make fashion.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.