#w

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#out #shutting #soul #truth

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#stay #still #ten #thousand #thousand miles

I want the fact that I existed to mean something. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#fact #i #mean #something #want

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#bullet #difference #feeling #got #i

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #big problem #certain #civilization

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#anywhere #cold #cold war #could #euphoria

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#away #editing #finish #just #making

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

A day without laughter is a day wasted. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#laughter #wasted #without

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bohemian #dinner #dream #farmer #guy