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Don Knotts Quotes

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Don Knotts

Don Knotts

Birthname

Birthday July 21, 1924

Birthplace Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Death February 24, 2006

Manner of Death Natural Causes, Pequis Pennis, Por Comer Nueses En La Casa De Maichel Jackson, Homiside, Alzheimer, Difundidosnif

Educated At West Virginia University

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Television Actor, Film Actor, Caca, Television Actor Poterie, No Se

Characters Portrayed

Barney Fife

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Sheriff Andy Taylor: Now, you can't be serious about resignin'. What in the world will you do?

Deputy Barney Fife: Oh, I-I don't know. I could go up to the pickle factory. They always need a brine tester.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: Andy the Matchmaker

Resigning Pickle Factory

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And you better gird your loins, buster. You got a fight on your hands.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2: Barney's Replacement

Gird Your Loins Fight Warning

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I ain't got time to stand around here and discuss trivial trivialities.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2: Barney's Replacement

Redundancy trivial

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Deputy Barney Fife: He got the drop on me.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: You mean he had a gun?

Deputy Barney Fife: Ugh...well...he has NOW.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The Manhunt

Got the Drop Ineptitude

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That poor, blind fool. He don't know it but he's headed right for Heartbreak Alley.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 3: Andy's Rich Girlfriend

poor Blind Fool Heartbreak

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I'm sick of the whole thing, too. You try to bring two people together and what do you get? Heartaches!

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 5: Man in the Middle

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All I'm saying is that there are some things beyond the ken of mortal man that shouldn't be tampered with. We don't know everything, Andy. There's plenty goin' on right now in the Twilight Zone that we don't know anything about and I think we oughta stay clear.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 4: The Haunted House

mortal man beyond the ken Twilight Zone

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Barney Fife: It won't work.

Andy Taylor: What won't work?

Barney Fife: You and Peg. That's what won't work. Andy, I hate to have to tell you this but you're gonna have to give her up. Forget about her. Nip it. Nip it in the bud.

Andy Taylor: What're you talkin' about?

Barney Fife: You want me to spell it out for ya, huh? All right, I will. Andy, she is one of the rich, and they are different.

Andy Taylor: Oh, come on.

Barney Fife: No, no, no. They are. They're different. From the minute they're born with that silver spoon in their hands...

Andy Taylor: Mouth.

Barney Fife: Right...life is different.

— Barney Fife (Don Knotts), The Andy Griffith Show, Season 3: Andy's Rich Girlfriend

Class war classism The Rich

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You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

— Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp: Difficulties, Challenges and Success: Life and Career Journey (J.D. Rockefeller's Book Club)

Blind Ignoring Closing your eyes Feeling

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.

— James Baldwin, The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist

Pain Heartbreak People Connection connection to people Relationships Torment Understanding Pain Life Empathy People in your life

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