Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I like my world to be calm.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
