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WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
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WILL SMITH Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH The first step is you have to say that you can.
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WILL SMITH When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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WILL SMITH Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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WILL DURANT And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some...
WILL SELF I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane o...
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WILL SELF The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wan...
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WILL ROGERS Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
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WILL ROGERS We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
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WILL ROGERS I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
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WILL ROGERS I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS I never met a man I didn't like.
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GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
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WILL FERRELL Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
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WILL HOBBS You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
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WILL ROGERS The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the q...
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WILL ROGERS Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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WILL ADVISE Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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WILL POULTER Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of red...
WILL ADVISE I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means o...
WILL ADVISE In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
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WILL ROGERS I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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WILL ROGERS If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
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WILL TUDOR All I know is what I read in the papers.
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WILL ROGERS The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE WILL America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE WILL Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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WILL ROGERS America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
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WILL ROGERS There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
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WILL DURANT A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
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WILL ROGERS There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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WILL SELF Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half o...
WILL ADVISE If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the th...
WILL SMITH There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress p...
WILL SMITH Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.
WILL ADVISE Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who re...
WILL SMITH America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
WILL FERRELL The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...
WILL SCHWALBE I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk ...
WILL ROGERS It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou...
GEORGE WILL The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
WILL ROGERS You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
WILL ROGERS Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANT Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood...
WILL CUPPY The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than the...
WILL DURANT She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no t...
GEORGE WILL Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoymen...
WILL ROGERS A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
WILL ROGERS Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
WILL ROGERS All I know is just what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS Republicans study the financial pages of the newspaper. Democrats put them in the bottom of the bird...
WILL STANTON Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE WILL It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILL DURANT Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
WILL ROGERS There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.
WILL ROGERS Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
WILL CUPPY Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we h...
WILL DURANT Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
WILL ROGERS There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
WILL ROGERS When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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