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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I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.
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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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Experience is a safe guide.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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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.
