Michael Douglas Quotes
Since Catherine Zeta-Jones and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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Both Dixie and I told Mr. Rickey we wanted to be traded, ... After just one road trip, I saw the quality of Jackie the man and the player. From that point on, I was one of many guys fighting to sit next to Jackie whenever I had the opportunity. I told Mr. Rickey I had changed my mind and I was honored to be a teammate of Jackie Robinson.
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Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
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I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
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Love lasteth long as the money endureth.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
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Since Catherine Zeta-Jones and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.
