Eve Babitz Quotes
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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I firmly believe everyone needs to have balance in their life.
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The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.
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We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.
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It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.
