William Oldys Quotes
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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I must have a drink of breakfast.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
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I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?
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Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.
