Kirk Douglas Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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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.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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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.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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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.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
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Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.
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Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.
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I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.
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I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
