Peter Falk Quotes
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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I care about our employees more than anybody in my company. I care about my kids, too, but that doesn't mean I give them everything that they want.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
