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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
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Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, Put it in land, and you can always walk on it. We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again
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