Eve Babitz Quotes
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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Our neediest students, who would not have access to college without Pell Grants, should not be further punished after enduring a natural disaster.
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.
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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.
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The street has its own use for things.
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As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.
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I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.
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I am a straightforward man.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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All around the top, it was covered in flames. It's depressing.
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We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
