Irving Babbitt Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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We've always believed in our music.
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American music culture is black culture.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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I like what I'm doing. If I didn't like what I was doing, I'd be doing something else.
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Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
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Why is it we want one car to do everything?
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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Do what you want, but be prepared in that case to be ruled rather than to rule others... Soft countries breed soft men. For it is not possible for the same land to bear both wonderful fruits and men who are good at war.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
