Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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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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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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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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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !
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That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.
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My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.
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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
