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'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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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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We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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I have nine children. Four of my children are adopted. We talk about those who have nothing. My children started with nothing, some of them.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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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.
