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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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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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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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.
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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.
