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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Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.
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The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
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God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
