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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I don't have a sprinter's body.
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The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
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Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
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We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
