Michael Douglas Quotes
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.
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There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
