Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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I loved New York-every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong-visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
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Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.
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Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.
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I'm just a story teller.
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I wanna be the most successful socially aware artist: Grammys, number one singles, albums, overseas and internationally-known household name, all that.
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'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.
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I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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He's got a strong vision and a strong will of what he wants to do. . . . It's the stuff of which governors are made to look good or bad.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
