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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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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It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.
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I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.
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When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
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Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
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Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
