W. C. Fields Quotes

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Inspired
  • Ocean
  • Paris

• My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Life
  • Character
  • Job

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• I want people to learn what democracy means.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Learn

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dream

• My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Black
  • Smart
  • Perspective

• 'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

  

  Enele Sopoaga
  • Grandmother
  • Radio
  • Supposed

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
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