Ralph Chaplin Quotes
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I'm cranky.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
