Dik Browne famous quotes

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  • It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

  • Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

  • If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  • Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

  • How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  • How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

  • All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

  • Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

  • Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

  • There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

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