Harry Chapin Quotes
All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
Quotes to Explore
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
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All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
