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.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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That was a time when we were really working together as an international community of academics, politicians, public health experts. Everybody really was so focused.
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Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
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The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
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Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.
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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.
