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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, 'How many more years do I have on this earth?' But I can't really conceive of dying.

~Don Rickles

Topics: About Age Alone Conceive Dying Earth How Many More Once Really Think While Years I Think

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Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Come Course Crazy Die Dies Everybody Head Just Know Me Never Somehow Think

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Frank Sinatra. Hey, Frank, I saw you in 'The Pride and Passion,' and I want to tell you the cannon was wonderful!

~Don Rickles

Topics: Cannon Frank Frank Sinatra Hey Passion Pride Saw Sinatra Tell Want Wonderful You

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I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Academy After Always American Arts Clubs Comedy Doing Dramatic Got Guy Jokes Made Parties People Sidetracked Started Who

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Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Anything Call Come Down Generally Going Just Knew Lines Never Sense Sixth Sixth Sense Sometimes Written

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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Half Half Years Philippines Spent Two War World World War World War Ii Years

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I'm a New Yorker, originally. I was raised in Jackson Heights. I went to P.S. 148 and then Newtown High School. If World War II didn't come, I'd still be there in school. World War II saved me.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Come Heights High High School Jackson Me New New Yorker Originally Raised Saved School Still Then War World World War World War Ii Yorker I Was Raised

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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

Topics: Always Because Being Big Busy Clown Dramatic Dummy Events Had Heights High High School Jackson School Shot Social Society Trouble

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I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Bar Filled Guy He His Louis Off Over Prima Rest Soul Stage Stood Tiny Used Work Worked

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The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

~Don Rickles

Topics: Almost Bells Business Clothing Days Forth Get Girl Just Know Less Like Little Restaurants Say Some Than Those Thought Today Wild Wore Work Worked You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: May 8th, 1926

Died: April 6th, 2017

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