Irving Babbitt Quotes
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Broadway is really my life.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.
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Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
