Don Rickles Quotes

I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

Don Rickles

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Success
  • Light

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Advertising
  • Market
  • Local

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Rules
  • Some

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Poet

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Start

• Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Giving
  • Back
  • Survive

• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• Certain struggles never end.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Never
  • End
  • Struggles

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Nature

• In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.

  

  John Knoll

• Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

  

  Johnny Rivers
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Music

• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Disaster

• I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

  

  Don Rickles