Kirk Kerkorian Quotes
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.
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I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'
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I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
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Desistance from sin makes one entirely happy.
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When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.
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If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.
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It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
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'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
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The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
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Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
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Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
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I'm a very passive investor.