W. C. Fields Quotes
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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But I think we need the international market.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.
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First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
