Harry Chapin Quotes

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Harry Chapin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1942 - July 16, 1981

Topics

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

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I like documentaries; I watch the Soccer Channel; I like the Military Channel.

Steve Jones

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When we first started, I didn't know there was Christian rock or Christian music. I just thought we were a rock band that stuck to our convictions... Like every other hardcore band out there sang or screamed what they thought, we did the same thing.

Sonny Sandoval

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I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Steven Zaillian

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When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

Robert Vaughn

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Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Jason Silva

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My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.

Dawn Richard

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If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

Cliff Chiang

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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

William Gibson

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What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

Peter Fenton

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I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

Sharon Horgan

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I always think about the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle, and just the idea that God would be looking at me and thinking, 'Eh, I think she can handle more.' And the angels thinking, 'What are you doing? You're a lunatic.' And God being like, 'No, no, trust me. She can handle this.'

Tig Notaro

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