W. C. Fields Quotes
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.
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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
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If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
