Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quotes
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
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I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
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The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.
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I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.
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I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
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I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.
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Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.
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Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.
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Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.
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America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.
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I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.
