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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I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.
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On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
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I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
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A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
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'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
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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.
