Peter Falk Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
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So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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Being short works for me.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
