Denis Norden Quotes
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
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In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.
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We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
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Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
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Smetana certainly knew which side his bride was bartered.
