Peter Falk Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
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I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
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One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
