Kirk Douglas Quotes

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

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• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

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• I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  

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• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

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• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

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• I'm not a Democrat.

  

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• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  

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• Let the path be open to talent.

  

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

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• It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

  

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• But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

  

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• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

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• It's so easy to look foolish online.

  

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• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

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• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  

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• We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

  

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• Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.

  

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• The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

  

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• Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Great
  • Success
  • Small