Harry Chapin Quotes
Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
Quotes to Explore
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and the huge outpouring of public support that then-President George W. Bush garnered.
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The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
