Don Rickles Quotes

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Don Rickles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017

Topics

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After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.

Menachem Begin

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Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Meir Soloveichik

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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.

Stephen Curry

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I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

Simon Beaufoy

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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Roald Dahl

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People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

Ruth Glick

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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Michael Pollan

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I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Moby

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Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Jason Statham

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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

Don Rickles

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When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

Christopher Koch

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