Eve Babitz Quotes

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

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• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Town

• The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

  

  Larry Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Deep
  • Theater
  • Too Deep

• There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Want
  • Office
  • Ass

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Free
  • Firsts

• Love is something that never goes out of style.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Style
  • Love Is

• [Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Trump
  • Trade
  • Donald Trump

• A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Happy
  • Budweiser
  • Brewery

• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

  

  Drew Houston
  • Work
  • Business
  • Period

• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • Secret

• Things are simple when you're going to die.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Death
  • Simple
  • Dying

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Careful
  • Guide
  • Feedback

• Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Obstacles
  • Hidden
  • Paths

• I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.

  

  Elizabeth Neel
  • School
  • History
  • Books

• I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Imagine
  • Elated