W. C. Fields Quotes
If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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Life's too short to just breeze on by.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
