Geoff Ogilvy Quotes

I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

Geoff Ogilvy

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• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Health
  • Happiness

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Myself

• I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Happy
  • Day

• The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Great
  • American
  • Success

• We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Army
  • Police
  • Mexican

• You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • War
  • Die

• I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

  

  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • House

• Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

  

  Matt Stone
  • People
  • Culture

• I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Jesus

• I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

  

  Luke Roberts
  • Up

• Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• So tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma.

  

  Barack Obama
  • School
  • May
  • American

• I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.

  

  P. D. James
  • Lost
  • Regret
  • Envy

• Only now 1943 I become conscious that my work in black, white and little color planes has been merely 'drawing' in oil color. In drawing, the lines are the principal means of expressions.. .In painting, however, the lines are absorbed by the color planes; but the limitations of the planes show themselves as lines and conserve their great value.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Work
  • Great
  • Black

• Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think I was the beneficiary of a little bit of charity.

  

  Geoff Ogilvy
  • Charity
  • Beneficiary