Don Rickles Quotes
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Racism is a physical experience.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
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'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'
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We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
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I never went out looking for glory.
