Don Rickles Quotes

I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.

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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The '60s were a remarkable time because several things were happening at once. Men were leaving planet Earth, kids were breaking into the television age, and I was able to see Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

John M. Grunsfeld

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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

John Hume

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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Anita Loos

BusinessBestTherapyPossibleShow

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

Andy Serkis

CameraArtistActorStorytelling

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

PeopleYouthImpossibleGrowBecome

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

Jean Piaget

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One of the things I love about doing television is that I don't feel like I'm just purely a writer. I like all of the opportunities television affords to kind of build a brand that can work across platforms, so I'm not just solely at my computer in my pajamas all day.

Stephanie Savage

WorkLoveDayOpportunitiesBrand

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport

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If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.

Jason Pierre-Paul

TiredKnowTeammatesOutComing

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard

LifeMedicalBelieveDoingCreate

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Arthur Henderson

HistoryInfluenceWillWhateverFail

I don't cook around heat in my underwear.

Antoni Porowski

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