W. C. Fields Quotes
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
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The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
