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Harry Chapin Quotes

When in doubt, do something.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Doubt When In Doubt Something

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

Life Good Father Happiness Coffee

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

Responsibility I Am Conservative Who

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Survive Small Debate Will Must Sure

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Jeanette Winterson

People Self Feel Whole Many Outer

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Good Job Lawyer Divorce Table Never

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Time Child Writing Thinking Reason

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

Character Law You Perfect Jewish

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Decisions You Find Down Sometimes

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Life Good Business Myself Believe

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

Flight Now Office Houston Return

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People Me Understanding Feeling More

Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

Clayton M. Christensen

Blame Problems Finding Labor Unions

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