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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
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If you want to serve the age, betray it.
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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
