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.

  

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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
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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.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
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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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

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

  

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

  

  Warren Farrell
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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.

  

  Larry Wall
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• 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.

  

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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.

  

  Angela Merkel
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• As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

  

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• I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

  

  Molly Ringwald
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• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Feeling
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• That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life
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• I never wanted fame.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Fame

• 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