Eve Babitz Quotes
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?
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Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.
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One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
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It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.
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My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.
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I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
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I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.
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The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
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I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.