Irving Babbitt Quotes
True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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I'm a huge movie nerd.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
