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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A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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The skew of the audience has probably dropped 10 years, ... Older people don't have the spontaneity and the energy. You mix in 15-percent young kids and the older people enjoy the show more.
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The speaker did an excellent job. What made it really good was that he spoke at a student level, rather than at the level he could have and that helped the audience understand better.
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The best thing about this group of candidates that only one of them can win.
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The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter -- he's got to just know.
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Once a man holds public office he is absolutely no good for honest work.
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Nothing makes a man or body of men as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it they laugh it off.
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Nothing makes a man as mad as the truth.
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I'm just an old country boy in a big town trying to get along. I have been eating pretty regular and the reason I have is because I have stayed an old country boy.
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I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.
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I never met a man I didn't like
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No nation ought to be allowed to enter into a war until it's paid for the last one.
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No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.