Peter Falk Quotes
I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.
