W. C. Fields Quotes
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
