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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Carpe diem, you know.
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I'll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.
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Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.
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Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
