Irving Babbitt Quotes
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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He that loves reading has everything within his reach.
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My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.
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