Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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I don't get claustrophobic.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
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If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.
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For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
