Eve Babitz Quotes
The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
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While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
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The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.
