62 Quotes by Tom Noddy

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    I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.

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    Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.

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    I needed to entertain myself at home nights... I got a jar of bubbles.

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    I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

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    The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

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    I've never had much and I've never needed much. If I had only two bucks in my pocket, I knew I could spend it because I could always do another show of some kind, even on a sidewalk.

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    I was in my hippie stage. It was tough for my father. First it was the long hair, then the bubbles.

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    When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

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