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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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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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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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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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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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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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.
