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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
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.
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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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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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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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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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The Supreme Court is divided almost in half on the decisions. Talk about an international court. How would we ever agree with a lot of foreigners when we can't even agree among our own judges?
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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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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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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