Peter Falk Quotes
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
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Sports saved my life.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
