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Don Rickles Quotes

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

Don Rickles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

God People Thank God You Say Okay

I like feeling like I could probably fail, because it makes me find a part of myself that I didn't really know: an inner fighter in me.

Jessie Buckley

Myself Me Feeling Find Know Fighter

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga

History Facts Connections Sense Only

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

Joel Fuhrman

Work Control Fighting Because Drives

You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.

Andre Rieu

You Go Nothing Concert Pop Between

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

Max Greenfield

Family Mom Tradition Now Real Like

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

Shirley Manson

Business Fight Battle You Ready Try

I'm just fortunate to get to sing songs composed by such great musicians. It's a bonus that the songs have been received well.

Mohit Chauhan

Great Musicians Fortunate Well Get

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

Jay Mohr

Time Think Golf Divorce Never Sunny

I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world.

Jonathan Krisel

Funny Time Me Influence World Look

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Jon Landau

Work Time Arrogance Resistance Same

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito

Law Easy Innocent Terrorism Human

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Doris Lessing

Work People World Know Run Anything