Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.
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I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.
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It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.
