Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.
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Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
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The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.
