Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
