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 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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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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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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At the north-eastern angle is the chapel, an uncommonly hideous relic of late Victorian times.
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To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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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.
