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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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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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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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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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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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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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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Jaden Smith is a good friend of mine. We've got that song that just dropped on the 'Rich Forever II' tape, and we got a couple other songs that we have in the cut.
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Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
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My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
