Kirk Douglas Quotes
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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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.
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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.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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'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.'
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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.
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I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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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.
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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.
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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
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O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
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I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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For me, the one relationship in my life that I cherish the most has to be the one I share with my parents, especially my mother.
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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
