Kirk Douglas Quotes

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

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• People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Moral
  • Religion

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Age
  • Me

• It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Social

• It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Yourself

• He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Believe
  • True
  • Free

• 'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'

  

  Larry Niven
  • Work
  • Book

• When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • World
  • Beginning

• I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Drinking

• I feel like as you blossom more, you become more mature, and I'm definitely excited for whatever life has to throw at me, and knowing me, I'm definitely going to be sharing it all.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Life

• It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Amazing
  • Responsibility
  • Wonder

• I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Value
  • Stage
  • Face

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Same

• Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Friendship

• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

  

  Denis Johnson

• When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

  

  Kirk Douglas