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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You praise a man for having killed his enemy by means of an advantage; and by praising him for boldness you praise him for a sin against nature, because boldness leads to destruction.
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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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You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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There is too much unhappiness in football, no?
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While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
