W. C. Fields Quotes
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
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The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.
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In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
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In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.
