Kirk Douglas Quotes
It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
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Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.
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It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.
