W. C. Fields Quotes
When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
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No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
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When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
