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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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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If you are really challenged, and if you are willing to take the plunge, very often some of the path opens up in front of you.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
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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.
