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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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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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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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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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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I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
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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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As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.
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I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.
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I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
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The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.
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I'm secretly very stuffy.
