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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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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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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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.
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I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
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In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
