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.

  

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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
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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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• 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
  • Truth
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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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• 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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• In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

  

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• Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

  

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• These teachings have been sent to explain the truth as Jesus intended it to be known in the world - not to give a new Christianity, but to give the real Christ-teaching: how to become like Christ, how to resurrect the Eternal Christ within one's Self...

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
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• Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
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• I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.

  

  Dr. John
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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.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Fame
  • Reputation