Michael Douglas Quotes
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
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Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.
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... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one that causes me to say, 'I am unworthy. I may have no claim to divine sonship if you examine me at my worst.' For once a person believes he is an 'unworthy sinner,' it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Jesus Christ.
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Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
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Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.
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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
