Don Rickles Quotes
I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
Rickles, Don, and David Ritz. Rickles' Book. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
The prime minister was known to have had a serious problem with alcoholism.
He was famous for his comical impressions of Richard M. Nixon.
He was a rabid anti-teacher fanatic. Teachers on most schools sustems are entitled to due process, a reaction aginst the past times when teachers were fired for not supporting the political party in power or other things having nothing to do with education. This due process is interpreted by some to mean that teachers cannot be fired. This is an exaggeration. There is no school district in the United States where a teacher cannot be fired for directly harming children. However, under most school system rules, teachers cannot be fired because their students do not learn the curriculum. This does “screw up chldren’s lives”. Whether or not a student learns involves too many factors other than the teacher to hold teachers responsible. In most school ditricts, the teachers do not choose the curriculum, and are given the textbooks and instructional materials which they must use even if they think better ones are avaialbe. Some children have learning difficulties and others are not motivated at all. Some parents are not supportive of the school, and some children lead such stressful lives that learning is very difficult.
Donald Jay Rickles was an American actor, author, and stand-up comedian. He was known especially for his insult comedy. His film roles included Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) with Clark Gable, Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing (1967), Clint Eastwood's Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) with Robert De Niro; beginning in 1976, he enjoyed a two-year run starring in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey and had his own sitcom called The Don Rickles Show (1972).
