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 as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Harry Chapin

Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

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Differences, Making A Difference, Care

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No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

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Cutting, Lines, Dead Ends

Song: Circle, 1972

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We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

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Moving, World, Ready

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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 what would happen to this world?

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Men, Time On Earth, World

Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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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 battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

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Dream, Tired, Sleep

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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 that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

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Success, Children, Believe

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Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

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Heart, Eye, People

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And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

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Sweet, Rain, Writing

Song: Story Of A Life, 1980

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I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

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Mistake

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

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Mean, Want, Facts

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The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

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Knowing, Wish, Age

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When in doubt, do something.

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Live Life, Compassion, Doubt

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

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Better Place

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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 isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

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Commitment, Thinking, Impact

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All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

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Children, Future, World

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There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one.

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Morning, Flower, Color

Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

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Dream, Pay, Good Dream

Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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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 effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

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Two, Goal, World

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The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

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Teacher, Art, Flower

Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

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Lasts, Actresses, Said

Song: Sequel

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And I dream that something's coming
And it's not just in the wind
It's more than just tomorrow
It's more than where we've been
It offers me a promise
It's telling me, begin!

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Dream, Hope, Wind

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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

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Dad, Home, Cat

Song: Cats In The Cradle

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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.

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Numbers, Differences, Feelings

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

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Writing, Kids, Guitar

Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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Born: December 7, 1942
Died: July 16, 1981
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
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