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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I'm apparently attracted to things that are on the edge of what America really wants to watch: 'Six Feet Under,' 'Sports Night,' 'Dirty Sexy Money,' and 'Parenthood' were always struggling in the ratings. It was kind of heartbreaking not knowing if we get to come back every season.
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In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
