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Will Rogers Quote: 'There is nothing so stupid as ...'

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Profession: Actor
Nationality: American
Birthday: November 4, 1879

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.


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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.


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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.


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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
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The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
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A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.
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The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'


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