Ogden Nash Quotes
I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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To me, my business is my life.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.
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Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all.
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My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
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I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
