Don Rickles Quotes
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? Why don't you have any fun?' My fun is Sundays. Anybody can go to the club. You don't have to be good at going to the club to go to the club. You have to be good to be playing on Sundays, and to me, that's what's cool.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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That's hot.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.
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Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
