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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.
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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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You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
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