Harry Chapin Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
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The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.
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The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
