Kirk Douglas Quotes
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas
Quotes to Explore
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I love being outside, I do a lot of hunting.
Sam Hunt
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
K. A. Applegate
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
Ira Hayes
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
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I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
Adam McKay
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
J. G. Ballard
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes
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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
Rachel Corrie
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
G-Eazy
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle
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Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.
Samuel Johnson
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Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
Taliesin
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
Walter Scott
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Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.
Barack Obama
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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
Stephen Fry
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By one estimate, 90% of international transactions were accounted for by trade before 1970, and only 10% by capital flows. Today, despite a vast increase in global trade, that ratio has been reversed, with 90% of transactions accounted for by financial flows not directly related to trade in goods and services.
Didier Sornette
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
Imogen Poots
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I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas