Don Rickles Quotes
There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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I'm not fashionable.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.
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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
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Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.
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A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.
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Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
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Without the reader there would be no writer.
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There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
