Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Quotes to Explore
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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Life is God's art.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
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It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
