Irving Babbitt Quotes

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

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• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

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• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

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• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

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• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

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• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

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• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  

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• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

  

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

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• I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.

  

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• Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

  

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• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

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• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

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• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

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• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

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• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

  

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• When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

  

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• I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very influenced by what I like to wear since I style myself.

  

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• The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.

  

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• I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans

  

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• Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Style
  • Something
  • Excellence