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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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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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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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.
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The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
