Ogden Nash Quotes
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
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The body learns through exaggeration and contrast
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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
