Douglas Sirk Quotes
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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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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It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
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In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
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It means so much to be able to share myself with the world.
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You can't do anything else once you do game shows. You have no career.
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And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
