Kirk Douglas Quotes
You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
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A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.
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The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.
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Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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There isn't much room to get sick, be angry or unhappy when you do something you love all day.
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.
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You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.
