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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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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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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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.
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I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.
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My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...
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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
