Don Rickles Quotes

Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Animal
  • King
  • Once

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Story

• In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • English
  • Nobody

• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • King
  • Broken

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Man
  • King

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Day
  • Door

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Like
  • King
  • Rule

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Weird
  • King
  • Lion

• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • War
  • King
  • Vietnam War

• If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • King
  • Bus

• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Man

• Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Movie
  • King
  • Hero

• I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

  

  E. Lee Spence
  • God
  • Design
  • Intelligent

• Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Me
  • Star

• Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.

  

  Don Rickles
  • King