Peter Falk Quotes
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
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I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified - more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se - this poem which is a poem and nothing more - this poem written solely for the poem's sake.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.
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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.
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Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.
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I'm secretly very stuffy.
