Peter Falk Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
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I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
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No military or veteran family should have to choose between paying their bills and being together while one of our nation's heroes is in the hospital.
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
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Columbo was never comfortable if somebody considered him unique or smart.
