W. C. Fields Quotes

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

W. C. Fields

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • You
  • Progress
  • Better

• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Tell
  • Still
  • Villages

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • End
  • Start

• I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Hope

• It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Beginning

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • May
  • Water
  • Leaving

• A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge

• The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Future
  • Past
  • Identity

• I bow my head to the love shown by the public in Vadodara. Each voter worked like Narendra Modi. You completed a very big responsibility.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Responsibility

• Often the willingness to think differently about a problem and then risk sharing the idea with others certainly pay off.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Risk

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Soul

• I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Kids

• I've remixed lots of other people's songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, 'Why don't you give 'Ibiza' to someone to remix?' I said, 'Sure,' because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Why
  • Art

• When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

  

  W. C. Fields