Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, and he was coming in the opposite direction. I don't know who said hello first, but we started talking, and it turned out that he went to high school with my first wife, Alice.
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I'm surrounded by women whose style I admire. It's natural to be inspired. I'm not a horrible copycat, or if I am, then I admit it and make a joke about it.
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That's actually about my dad's ex-wife believe it or not!. Actually a lot of the stuff that's in that song actually happened, like my laundry being thrown out, and stuff like that. So that was inspired by my dad's ex-wife.
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Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.
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The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
