W. C. Fields Quotes
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
