Michael Douglas Quotes
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
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I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.