Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.
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Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
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We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it
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If I wear it, you better like it.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
