Harry Chapin Quotes

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• 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…
• All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
• We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.
• I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is…
• If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder…
• The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are…
• To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.
• Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your…
• If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it…
• What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how…
• Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.
• Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them…
• I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.
• You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took…
• When in doubt, do something.
• Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.
• But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
• When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.
• I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
• 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…

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