W. C. Fields Quotes
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
Dan Quayle
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
N. K. Jemisin
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon
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I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.
Cameron Boyce
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
Daniel Cormier
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
Gary Herbert
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan
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Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
Stephen Spender
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
Joanne Rowling
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I always love wearing Vivienne Westwood. Her dresses just seem to fit me perfectly, and she makes dresses for girls with curves - I love that.
Charli XCX
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Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.
Annabella Sciorra
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My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields