Eve Babitz Quotes

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

  

  Larry King
  • Live
  • King
  • Television

• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Power
  • Fight
  • Stand

• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Free
  • Seriously

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Character
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Freedom
  • Feeling
  • Speak

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Simple
  • Care
  • Problems

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Change
  • Organization

• Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Revenge

• Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • True

• I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

  

  Adan Canto
  • People
  • Trying
  • Psychology

• The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Education

• Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • Great

• What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I raced in London in the 2012 Olympics, and it was incredible to be a part of, with half a million people watching and then later seeing kids going back to cycle.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee
  • People
  • Kids

• Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • People
  • New York
  • Brains