Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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Pretty witty Nell.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
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When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.
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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
