Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
  • Actor
  • Just

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mistake

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Thoughts

• I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Evil
  • Thought
  • TV

• When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Friends
  • City

• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Man
  • Yourself

• I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • She
  • High

• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Long
  • Television
  • Blessing

• I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Single

• I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it's going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Face
  • I Can

• I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • World

• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Distance
  • Philosopher
  • Discovered

• I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • People
  • Women
  • Real

• I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together.

  

  Lauren London
  • Family
  • Together
  • Black

• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Car

• A life is black, whiten it as you will.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Black
  • Life is