Irving Babbitt Quotes

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1865 - July 15, 1933

Topics

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I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

Meaghan Jette Martin

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I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.

John Paul Jones

KnowledgeMyselfI AmWishWithout

I would like to think people would take me seriously.

Michael Avenatti

PeopleMeThinkSeriouslyTakeLike

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

Metta World Peace

MeWinCareYouWantStarting

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

John T. Flynn

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I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Simon McBurney

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I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.

Shimon Peres

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I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Tony Kushner

GreatMeEvilThinkFeelingActive

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Rue McClanahan

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There's one place, and one place only, to see polar bears in America. You have to travel to the country's northernmost point, the very apex of Alaska's North Slope, to the permafrost shores that stretch out on either side from the Inupiat town of Kaktovik.

Michael Shnayerson

TravelAmericaYouCountryPlace

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.

Jasper Johns

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European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.

Joseph Stiglitz

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