Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.
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Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.
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And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
