W. C. Fields Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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You see the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
