Don Rickles Quotes
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
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One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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The emotional masses of ordinary people who resented the Great Work, the bombs and bacteria and guided missiles, were coming to the surface. The were rising up - finally. Putting an end to super-logic: rationality without responsibility.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
