Irving Babbitt Quotes
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.Irving Babbitt
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway -
Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
Warren Stephens -
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
Gail Simmons -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
Lady Gaga -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne -
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot -
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
Vidal Sassoon -
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao -
My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.
John Galliano -
I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.
Andre Rieu -
One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
Albert Einstein -
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
Liane Moriarty -
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt