Charles V. Chapin Quotes
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
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A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
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As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
