Ogden Nash Quotes
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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My hunger is always there.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You know, things were a little bit sexier in a different way. Now, you know, I'm a mom, and I want to filter some of the things that I say.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
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When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
