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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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Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'
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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
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A Republican moves slowly. They are what we call conservatives. A conservative is a man who has plenty of money and doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money. A Democrat is a fellow who never had any, but doesn't see any reason why he shouldn't have some.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
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We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
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Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
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