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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The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
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Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
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I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
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When the game was in hand I tried to take him out. But my assistant Frank Hamblen said, 'I don't think you can do that. He's got 77 points'.
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O war! thou son of Hell!
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When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.
