Eve Babitz Quotes
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I'm not a negative person.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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Two is company; three is fifty bucks.
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I would love to go back to Broadway.
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I don't really get nervous anymore unless there's a big interview.
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It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish.
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Ladies, don't be afraid of getting big, bulky arm muscles from resistance exercise.
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There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.
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You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
