Peter Falk Quotes
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
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Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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I think I respect everyone votes and everyone must respect my votes. My vote bdo in 2015 was for Lionel Messi because, for me, he had an amazing season and he deserved to win.
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To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
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I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
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A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
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Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.
