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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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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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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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.
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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.
