W. C. Fields Quotes
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
