Douglas Sirk Quotes
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.
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Every action changes every other action. We return to our ABC's. Therefore every action in the present affects those actions which you call the past. Ripples from a thrown stone go to in all directions.
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Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
