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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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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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
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It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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Definitely the life and the camaraderie with the other players is something I appreciate a lot more now. I was very shy when I was younger and didn't always enjoy the lifestyle.
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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.
