David Ogilvy Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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Self-respect knows no considerations.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
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I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
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