Don Rickles Quotes
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.
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When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.
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A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
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I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.
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I've never gone to comedy clubs.
