Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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I don't always feel His presence. But God's promises do not depend upon my feelings; they rest upon His integrity.
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
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"In each of our lives Jesus comes as the Bread of Life - to be eaten, to be consumed by us. This is how He loves us. Then Jesus comes in our human life as the hungry one, the other, hoping to be fed with the Bread of our life, our hearts by loving, and our hands by serving. In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.
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What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
