Don Rickles Quotes
Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
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Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.
