Peter Falk Quotes

What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.

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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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• 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.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• 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.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• 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.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Expression
  • Audiences

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• 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.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• 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.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Gift

• The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

  

  Kelly Corrigan
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Truth

• I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Business
  • Friendship

• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Freedom

• I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Up
  • Star
  • Challenge

• What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.

  

  Peter Falk
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