Lewis Grizzard Quotes
There's a big difference between the words, ‘naked’ and ‘nekkid.’ ‘Naked’ means you don't have any clothes on. ‘Nekkid’ means you don't have any clothes on - and you're up to something.
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
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Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
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I love insects. They are amazing.
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A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
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There's a big difference between the words, ‘naked’ and ‘nekkid.’ ‘Naked’ means you don't have any clothes on. ‘Nekkid’ means you don't have any clothes on - and you're up to something.
