Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments.
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But does not happiness come from the soul within?
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Nobody's perfect and I don't want to try and portray that but I'm genuinely doing the best I can out here; trying to support my family the best that I can, trying to make them proud and happy and everybody having the best life they can live. I'm trying to provide a better life for them than I had.
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The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
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Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
