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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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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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 usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
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A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
