Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.
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Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
