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Irving Babbitt Quotes

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Leadership Faith Light People Whole

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

Art Wake Up Picture Portrait Museum

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

Start Thinking Way Musical Theater

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Anatoly Chubais

Economy Center Ideology Marxist

I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

People Think News Fox Real Watch

I usually just do, like, studio jobs, re-writes and stuff.

Just Like Stuff Studio Jobs

I love foot rubs, too. I'll take one whenever I can.

Love I Can Take Foot Too I Love

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

Robert Fitzgerald

Great Language Matter Well Different

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Freedom Religion Losing Speech Press

I have an African gray parrot; her name is Eli. We thought she was a boy. And a blue-streaked lory named Marco. He's 10. And a yellow and green parakeet, Petey. He's very cute, but he's getting old.

Cute Yellow Green Thought Name Boy

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Die You Always Pay Little Left

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

First Lord Theater Came Scripts

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!

Janice Dickinson

Surgery Cosmetic Addicted

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