There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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Will Rogers
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About Will Rogers
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and w…
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one di…
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Eart…
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one di…
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.