Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
Quotes to Explore
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
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Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
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I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.
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I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
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People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.
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Women need to become literary 'criminals', break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
