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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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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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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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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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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You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
