Kirk Douglas Quotes

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

Kirk Douglas

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• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Mature
  • Immature

• People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Theatre

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Help
  • Future
  • Sea

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• An injured lion still wants to roar.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Lion
  • Wants
  • Still

• The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Exercise
  • Lazy
  • Buddha

• There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Color

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Romantic

• Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,In rayless majesty, now stretches forthHer leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.

  

  Edward Young
  • World
  • Night
  • Goddess

• Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Die

• Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Bad
  • Death

• Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!

  

  George Arnold
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Sweet

• In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same thing. But what we do mean, what in the Western world we call human rights, in the Islamic world, they don't talk about rights. Now they do, but in the past they didn't. It wasn't part of their terminology. But really it's the same thing.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Human Rights

• Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

  

  Kirk Douglas