W. C. Fields Quotes
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.
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Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
