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.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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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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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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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
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I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!
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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.
