Don Rickles Quotes
There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.
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No matter how big and strong you are... even Tyson said he was scared as hell walking to the ring. Everyone feels the pressure.
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We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.
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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
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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.
