"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

Will Rogers, American Actor

Country, Job, Man, President

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Country, Needs

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Country, Opportunity, America, Growth, Potential

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

George Ade, American Playwright

Country, Entertainment, Popular

"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."

Norman Lear, American Producer

Country, Excess, Repetition, Violence

"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

Country, Right, Song

"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."

Thomas F. Meagher, Irish Revolutionary

Country, Famine, Glory

"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."

W. Richard Stevens, American Scientist

Country, Job, Weather, Years

"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country."

James Forrestal, American Public Servant

Country, Existence, Grave

"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."

King Edward VIII, English Royalty

Country, Forget, Mind, Want

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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

Eye

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

Time

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

Politics

"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."

Pretty

"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

Act

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

Style

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."

Artist

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

Eating

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."

Being

"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."

Christmas