Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.
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I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
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How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.
