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.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
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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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
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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.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
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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.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Believe
  • Health
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• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Organization

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Bad

• Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳπρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς.

  

  Aeschylus

• Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • People
  • She
  • Movie

• Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

  

  Charles Kingsley

• President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • World
  • America
  • Strong

• Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Live
  • Real
  • Enemy

• I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

  

  Sally Field
  • Think
  • First
  • I Think

• 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.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Fame
  • Reputation