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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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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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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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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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
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Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
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The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
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What listener wants to be torn and shaken when he doesn’t have to be? We have made unspeakable mean indescribable: it really means nasty.
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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
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I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headliner.
