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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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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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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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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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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I want to show how strong and smart women are. We go through so much. We need to see that on screen. Those female parts are not many, but they are out there, and I have to find some. I want that chance.
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I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious - like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I've definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.
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If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.
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Cris didn't play fair. He had watched half an hour - then come out and thrown once. One perfect toss, one dead ringer.
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Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
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Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
