Eve Babitz Quotes

I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.

Eve Babitz

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• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Winning
  • Seed

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Beliefs

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Help
  • Age

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Jump

• I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Worry
  • Down
  • Numbers

• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Career
  • Practice

• What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • You
  • Artist

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Women
  • Idea

• I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Career

• Algorithms in our search engines and social media platforms shape what we receive based on our previous preferences and choice, confirming our natural inclinations to read things that confirm our beliefs rather than challenge them.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Choice
  • Beliefs
  • Social Media

• I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Idea
  • Comic
  • Standup