W. C. Fields Quotes
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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I'm a worrier by nature.
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Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
