Ogden Nash Quotes
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
