Ogden Nash Quotes
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.
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It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?
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It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes-the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
