"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

People, Chance, Comedy, Rhetoric

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"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

People, Suffering, Taste

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

People, Excellence

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, May

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

People, Country

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults, Merit

"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."

Ken Buck, American Politician

People, Debt, Years

"You can stroke people with words."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Words

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you."

Life, Comedy

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

Life, Death, Want, Will

"These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet."

Men, Living, Trying

"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."

Living, Quiet

"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."

Business, Being

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."

"You can stroke people with words."

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you."

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."

"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

"We rest our case on the production numbers."

"These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet."

"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."

"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."