Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.
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You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.
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Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
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You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
