Peter Falk Quotes
Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.
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We shred every day.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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Armenian is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.
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I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
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Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.
