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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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
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Suffering. That was the key.
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Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off.
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Unbelief is based in fear! Belief is a necessity for God to operate and function in your life.
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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
