Don Rickles Quotes
Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
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My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
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When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
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While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
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Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
