Peter Falk Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
