Ogden Nash Quotes
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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It's a Tim sandwich. The meat is fresh, but the bread is moldy.
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I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.
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My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
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The long days are no happier than the short ones.
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Atom bombs, something's wrong. D.E.A sent to Guam. Acid Trips, big fat chics. Purple Finstone Vitamins.All the needy rich are greedy. I find out you don't need me. Berlin wall starts to fall. I trip out to the wall.
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I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
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I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.
