Edgar Wilson Nye Quotes
We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I hate celebrities.
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.
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You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
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If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.
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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'
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When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.
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When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.
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I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
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We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
