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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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
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With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipt maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.By brooks too broad for leapingThe lightfoot boys are laid;The rose-lipt girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
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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.
