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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
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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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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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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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A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
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A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
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The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
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Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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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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You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
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