Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogerswas an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 November 1879
CountryUnited States of America
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
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As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.
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Overall it was not a bad start to the season. It would have been great to have three guys shoot in the 70s. We were close to doing that.
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In politics, what gets bad gets worse. And we've been on a a bad roll for quite some time. We're in an environment now where every mistake is a metaphor.
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I'm striving to get better and be consistent, ... A lot of the time my technique was not as on key as we thought it should be. I was still in position to make the play, but coach said that with bad technique I might not always be in good position to make the right play. I need to get that technique down first.
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
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If you send somebody to teach somebody, be sure that the system you are teaching is better than the system they are practicing.
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I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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God made man a little lower than the angels, and he has been getting a little lower ever since
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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I never met a man I didn't like
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Comedians haven't improved. Nothing has improved but taxes.