Kirk Douglas Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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Proper training and federal supervision in state-federal partnerships are essential to both assuring constitutional rights and enforcing our immigration laws. Our Founding Fathers' concept of federalism does not prohibit such cooperation, and we have learned from experience that joint efforts work best.
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Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.
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I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.