Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I don't like controversy.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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I will run against anybody.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason.
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Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳπρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς.
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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This is a good day for the world's children. Children who today have no right to their own childhood, to education, to personal inviolability, have with these two representatives, these prize winners, got a voice both for the right to education - particularly for girls - and against unfair and exploitative child labor.
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I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
