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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I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'
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People are forgetting how crazy President 43 was.
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I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?
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Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
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The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.
