Edgar Wilson Nye Quotes
We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.Edgar Wilson Nye
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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.
F. Murray Abraham -
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Kara Lindsay -
I hate celebrities.
Manolo Blahnik -
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
Gay Talese -
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.
Caitlin Moran
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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.
Randy West -
I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
Ed O'Neill -
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
Barbra Streisand -
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.
Garth Nix -
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Walker Evans -
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.
Wade MacNeil Alexisonfire
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Chogyam Trungpa -
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
Tom Stoppard -
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.'
Jim Gaffigan -
Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
Muhammad Ali -
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
Michael Faraday -
Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.
Rita Mae Brown -
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
Nate Silver -
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.
Bill Clinton -
We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
Edgar Wilson Nye