Peter Falk Quotes
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
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I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, 'Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!'
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
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The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
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I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
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Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.
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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.
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I don't have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I'm fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.
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Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.
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I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
