Eve Babitz Quotes
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
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That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
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The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever.
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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Everybody steals my lines.
