Irving Babbitt Quotes
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.
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As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
