Don Rickles Quotes
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
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I've always found it interesting when I look at a woman, and she's beautiful and everything, but there's an inner strength.
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
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When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.
