Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
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It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.
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The greatness of human actions is measured by the inspiration that it brings. Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal of beauty and obeys it: an ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of country, ideal virtues of the Gospel! These are the wellsprings of great thoughts and great actions. All reflections illuminate infinity.
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I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.
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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
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I'm mainstream.
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We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
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All I want is to win matches, and the ranking sooner or later will come.
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I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a great time exploring Beijing from the inside out.
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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
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I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
