Don Rickles Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Square meals often make round people.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
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When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.
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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
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So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.
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China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
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I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.
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The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
