Bruce Babbitt Quotes
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
Quotes to Explore
-
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
-
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
-
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
-
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
-
Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
-
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
-
People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
-
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
-
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
-
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
-
St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
-
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
-
I thought I was going to be a Spur.
-
We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
-
The ideas that define Western civilization, Nietzsche said, are based on Christianity. Because some of these ideas seem to have taken on a life of their own, we might have the illusion that we can abandon Christianity while retaining them. This illusion, Nietzsche warns us, is just that. Remove Christianity and the ideas fall too.
-
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
-
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
-
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
