R- THE DON Quotes

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

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.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Have character, don't be one.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.