Don Rickles Quotes
I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
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I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.
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I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
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Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
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I always wanted to go to a drama school.
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I'm in a privileged position, but I still feel like the best is yet to come, and people still haven't seen the best of me yet, and that is so exciting for me.
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Messi has the best technique in the world.
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I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
