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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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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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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If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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My husband has no desire to work with me; don't get it twisted. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. But, that being said, I did have the story credit on 'Blades of Glory,' and writing is something that I've always been interested in pursuing more.
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I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.
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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.
