Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • Result
  • Recruiting

• The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Political

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Beautiful
  • Person
  • Shinier

• The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Me

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Piano

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Information

• Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Works
  • Ice Cream

• The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Game
  • Day

• I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Want
  • First
  • Secrets

• Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Die
  • Hurt
  • Say

• I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Hope
  • Dad
  • Mom

• This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Movie
  • Billy Wilder
  • Volker Schlondorff

• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's just a matter of getting that big hit. We just haven't done it in the clutch, and that's what this game is all about. We are 1-4 and it is early in the season. But we need to pick it up. There is too much talent in this clubhouse.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Game
  • Talent
  • Season

• Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Talent
  • Expression
  • Setting