Irving Babbitt Quotes
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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I've been asked a few thousand times how much of Columbo is Falk and vice versa.
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I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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I'm a huge fan, and I didn't grow up with it, I didn't grow up reading 'X-Men' comics. I became a huge fan; I had somebody in my company who gave me the biographies of all the characters. I read Logan's first and was like, 'What a great, tragic character.' I just loved him.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
