Don Rickles Quotes
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
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My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.
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I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.
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There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.
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I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
