Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
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I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.
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I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.
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He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy-meets-girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls.
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The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.
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I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
