W. C. Fields Quotes

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

W. C. Fields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946

Topics

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Fundamentally, we need a mind-shift that reconnects our development to the biosphere to ensure good and safe lives for all in the future.

Johan Rockstrom

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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

John Hodgman

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A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

Michael Beasley

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We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

Michael Bennet

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I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

Michael Douglas

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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

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We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy and unhealthy ways to be married.

Stephanie Coontz

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In Georgia, where I spend much time, the democratically elected pro-western President Mikhail Saakashvili has been beleaguered by a riotous opposition which proposes creating a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty, with a Spanish racing driver, Prince 'Jorge' Bagrationi, as king.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Russell M. Nelson

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The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.

Michael Spence

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I'm not comfortable leaving my house. If someone invites me over, I would go but it's not like I'm one to say, 'Hey, let's hang out at your house tonight.'

Courteney Cox

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If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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