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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Any one country can be in any of four possible disequilibrium situations. It can be (1) a surplus country with a domestic slump, (2) a surplus country with a domestic boom, (3) a deficit country with a domestic slump, or (4) a deficit country with a domestic boom.
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It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
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I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
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There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
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There isn't an Eskimo who doesn't love 'Columbo.'
