Kirk Douglas Quotes

Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.

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• I am supposed to set an example to young players.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Young
  • Players
  • Example

• It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Weird
  • Idea
  • Media

• Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

  

  Edith Head
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Language

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Running
  • Government

• Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Myself
  • Watch
  • Objective

• People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Soul
  • House

• Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Hair
  • Whatever
  • Wax

• When I'm on Faro, I'm never lonely.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Never
  • Lonely

• It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
  • Choices
  • Speak

• What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Day
  • Musicians

• While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Texas

• I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up longer, but over 15 years, it's become a habit. In my circle, I think a lot of musicians operate like this. When the place is quiet, you're more creative. I have plenty of people I can call at 4 A.M. and know they'll be up.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Party
  • Wonder

• I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Want
  • Death
  • Day

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Design

• A 'shared choice' movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Equality

• I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Together

• We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Way
  • Love Is
  • Discover

• The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

  

  Clive Davis
  • People
  • Song
  • Garden

• It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Life

• Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.

  

  Kirk Douglas