Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
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Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
