Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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I was possessed by London.
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Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
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Pop music will never be low brow.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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Sometimes time cannot tick backwards. Sometimes you cannot put a dragon back in a forest, nor a witch back in a tree-trunk, nor the breath back into a friend when all the breath has gone.
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To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.
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I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.
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I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!" Dudley and Piers sniggered. "I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream.
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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
