Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I don't like allegories.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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my fiancé is so handsome. Imma have to send his parents a fruit basket thanking them for creating the perfect man.
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I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are.
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What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.
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Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.
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Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.
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Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
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I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
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Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.
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There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
