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 do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.
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We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
