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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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
