W. C. Fields Quotes
The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I owe everything to France.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.
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And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
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The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
