Harry Chapin Quotes

If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Harry Chapin

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• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • inspirational

• I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Die

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Inspiration
  • Anxiety

• I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.

  

  Taliesin
  • May

• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate:And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Smile

• My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Heart
  • True
  • Success

• More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I learned nothing while I was in school.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • School

• I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Alcohol

• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Intuition

• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Past
  • Period

• It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

  

  Max Martin
  • Time
  • Important
  • Remember

• Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

  

  Mary Badham
  • Pretty

• The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Music
  • Air

• Our job as artists is to reflect the ills of society sometimes and to find a truth in that, and I think you can't start the healing process until you recognize the truth and all of its ugly warts and all.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Society

• We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Fall
  • Ability
  • Theory

• Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Writing
  • City

• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Different

• If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • American perception
  • Hunger Movement