Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Eberhard Weber -
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.
Ralph Peters -
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini -
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.
Ian MacKaye
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
Rachel Roy -
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
Aaron Staton -
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.
Lao Tzu -
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso -
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Wale -
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan -
People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Carly Fiorina -
Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
Samuel Barnett -
Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
Rainn Wilson -
She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
Iain Banks
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber -
I just need to be me.
Jimmy Graham -
I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
Natalie Wood -
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
Illeana Douglas -
The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.
F. B. Meyer -
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
Harry Emerson Fosdick