Kirk Douglas Quotes
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
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When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.
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My own parents loved each other very much.
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It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
