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, 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 was one of the higher paid Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in northern Alaska.
Quotes
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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