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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
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You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
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If food were free, why work?
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
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I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
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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.
