Buddy Hackett Quotes
You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
