Irving Babbitt Quotes
When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
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If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.
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I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
