Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
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An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.
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My mom says I was born screaming.
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I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.
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It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.
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Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
