Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.
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The goal is to write a story that you're proud of and hope the fans like it as well.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.
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We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
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Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
