Kirk Douglas Quotes
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
Madisen Beaty
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
Gaines Adams
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne Dyer
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
Jack Dangermond
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
Harmon Killebrew
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
Victoria Justice
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
Patricia Polacco
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
Manika
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
Cameron van der Burgh
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If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.
Margaret Thatcher
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The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.
Atul Gawande
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Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
Alan Rickman
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Benazir Bhutto
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
Kirk Douglas