Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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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.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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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.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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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.
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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.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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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.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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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.
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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.
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The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.
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I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
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New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
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My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.
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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
