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 would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
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Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
