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Harry Chapin

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Quotes by Harry Chapin

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I’m in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing “Nearer my God to thee” and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won’t you dance with me?
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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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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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The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they’re all comatose.
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I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies – like no money.
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Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That’s why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.
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But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you’re watching very closely The rock slips a little bit...
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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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You see, I have no real complaints of how you’ve left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you’ve erased him from your mind.
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Oh all the times I’ve listened, and all the times I’ve heard All the melodies I’m missing, and all the magic words, And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then, How I’d love to find we had that kind of choice again.
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