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Cameron Rogers writes like a magician. -- K. J. Bishop
Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight. -- Bum Phillips
Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers. -- Walt Disney
Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared. -- Walter Johnson
Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood. -- Joseph Losey
I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' -- George Steinbrenner
I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers. -- Mort Sahl
I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe. -- Catherine Keener
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. -- Mark Twain
People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on. -- Gil Gerard
I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like... well, Eichmann maybe. -- Jack Benny
Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers. -- Samantha Bond
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. -- Damon Runyon
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love. -- Willard Scott
To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like. -- Bill Maher
As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price. -- John Lewis Gaddis
My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community. -- Felicia Day
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year. -- Matt Millen
It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face. -- Mickey Mantle
Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep. -- John F. Kennedy
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. -- Ann Richards
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave. -- Wilfrid Hyde-White
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants. -- Edith Head
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers. -- Dale Evans
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. -- Marilyn Monroe
But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed. -- Ronnie Moran
When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline. -- Laura Bell Bundy
In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men. -- Dorothy Stratten
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman. -- Gene Kelly
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers. -- Tex Ritter
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases... -- Casey Stengel
I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars. -- Charles Bolden
Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air. -- Buzz Aldrin
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at. -- Anna Russell
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. -- Gregory Harrison
I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man. -- Edward Herrmann
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers. -- Ray Bradbury
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love. -- Betty Grable
I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films. -- Steve Kanaly
It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true? -- Samantha Bond
We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was. -- Joe Johnston
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. -- Ron Miles
Will Rogers"¦used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with a newspaper and pretend I'm an intellectual making fun of the yokels running the government. -- Mort Sahl
When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile. -- Lina Wertmuller
Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all. -- Edward Snowden
Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end. -- Joseph E. Johnston
Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end. -- Joseph E. Johnston
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst. -- Gallagher
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers. -- Kacey Musgraves
I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense. -- Rodney Crowell
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept. -- Gil Gerard
There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic. -- Iris Apfel
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman. -- Gabor Szabo
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. -- Sharon Stone
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums. -- Martin Filler
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Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago. -- Tommy Tune
One thing led to another and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me. -- Glenn Ford
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl. -- Lois Chiles
Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live. -- Roger Ebert
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. -- George Rogers Clark
Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian. -- Will Rogers
While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of 'Flying Down to Rio' and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential. -- Ginger Rogers
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I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people. -- Richard P. Feynman
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. -- Otis Rush
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. -- Scott Turow

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