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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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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Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
