Don Rickles Quotes

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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• That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
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• I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
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• We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
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• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
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• I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.

  

  Zhou Xun
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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success.

  

  Austin Phelps
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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.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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• Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
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• The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

  

  Barack Obama
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• To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

  

  Don Rickles
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  • American