Kirk Douglas Quotes

I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
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• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
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• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

  

  Jack Germond
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• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
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• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  

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• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

  

  Vicky Krieps
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• President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • American
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• In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

  

  Brené Brown
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• I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.

  

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