Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
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Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.
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Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.
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Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.
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Africa, and Zambia in particular, drifted away from the West for a long time, and we have to reconcile.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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The revolution was the culmination of a long social and economic development which… made the bourgeoisie the masters of the world.
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I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.
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A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.