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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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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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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Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.
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Closely allied to the assumption that Democrats can't win because they're too secular is the view that they can't win if they're too liberal. This assumption has steered Hillary Clinton toward the center, following her husband. I tend to share this view myself.
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No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
