Will Rogers Quotes
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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Faust klagt über die zwei Seelen in seiner Brust; ich beherberge aber eine ganze Menge, die sich zanken. Es geht da zu wie in einer Republik... Das meiste, was sie sagen, teile ich mit. Es sind da aber auch ganze Provinzen, in die ich nie einen andern Menschen werde hineinsehen lassen.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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‘Here we go again,’ he thought. ‘Drink and reminiscence. Another day of wasted time. They’re right when they say we drink too much out here. And we slobber too much over ourselves....We’re all sorry for ourselves because we’re not big executives or artists or happily married men in a civilized temperate climate.’
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When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
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If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Where yet was ever found a motherWho'd give her booby for another?
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As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that sort [for the 'King Of The South' title] would be Lil Wayne - as far as success from a numbers standpoint. As far as longevity and success, that's the only person I feel like can say that.
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I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the President was pleased to hold me personally, but as an indication of his humane interest in the welfare of my whole race.
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
