Kirk Douglas Quotes

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • Movie
  • End

• Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Value
  • Positive

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Big

• My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Great
  • Music
  • School

• I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Great
  • Women
  • City

• I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• Becoming a father has made my life a lot more interesting. It's like everything slows down because time goes slower, and you notice that you're actually awake for so many more hours. Your waking hours elongate because you're doing things at a child's pace.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Friends
  • Father