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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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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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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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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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.
