Kirk Douglas Quotes

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Kirk Douglas

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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

Nathan Myhrvold
- People
- High
- English
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

Irvin D. Yalom
- Life
- Up
- Black
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

Vince Cable
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Barney Frank
- People
- Today
- Very
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

Barton Gellman
- Courage
- Back
- Daniel
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Eamon de Valera
- Time
- Military
- Problems