Don Rickles Quotes
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	The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.   
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	What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.   
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	My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!   
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	I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.   
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	The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.   
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	Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.   
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	I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.   
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	It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.   
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	Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.   
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	No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.   
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	There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.   
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	I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.   
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	When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.   
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	Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.   
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	I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.   
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	I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.   
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	I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.   
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	My brother is really, really slow.   
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	You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'   
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	The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.   
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	There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.   
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	The purpose of a business is to create a customer.   
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	My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.   
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	My mother was a Jewish General Patton.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					