Irving Babbitt Quotes
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
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Mr. Hitler had to leave the stadium early, but after winning I hurried up to the radio booth. When I passed near the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him.'
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
