Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Meaning

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Teaching
  • Profession

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Movies

• I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Wind

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Kids

• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

  

  Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Girl

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Technology
  • Danger

• It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Fortune
  • Selling
  • Advertise

• The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Politics
  • Destruction
  • Totalitarian

• The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Challenge
  • Fortune
  • Destruction