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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
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I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
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Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.
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Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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