Will Rogers Quotes

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Will Rogers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

Topics

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I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Jim Fowler

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On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

Max Joseph

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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

John Polanyi

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I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

Sonny Perdue

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My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.

Trudie Styler

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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

Tony Abbott

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Lehrer

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Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.

Mitch McConnell

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I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.

Johnny Mathis

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

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It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

David Zucker

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I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

Debi Mazar

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