Don Rickles Quotes
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
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Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
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I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.
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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
