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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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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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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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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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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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.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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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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Robbery is common.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those 'special songs' of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd 'rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.'
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
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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.
