Don Rickles Quotes
Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
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There are a lot of horror films out there that are nasty, but what's nasty isn't necessarily scary.
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I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.
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The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.
