W. C. Fields Quotes
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
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For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
