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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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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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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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
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I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.
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I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
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How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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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.
