David Ogilvy Quotes

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

David Ogilvy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 23, 1911 - July 21, 1999

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I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Jim Crace

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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

John Bright

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One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

John Badham

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I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

John Belushi

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I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

Andrew Scott

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In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield

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Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Robert Schumann

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'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

Robert Gottlieb

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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Ann Brashares

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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

St. Jerome

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I been in this game a long time.

Trick Daddy

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I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.

Rob Marshall

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