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'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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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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I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.
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I wish I were more disciplined.
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I'm the third generation of my family in the film business, and I grew up with a deep passion for movies. I made my own Super 8 films when I was a kid and always loved the editing process.
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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.
