Michael Douglas Quotes
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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Diversity is really a richness for mankind.
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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Clearly, we have compiled a record of serious failures in recent technological encounters with the environment. In each case, the new technology was brought into use before the ultimate hazards were known. We have been quick to reap the benefits and slow to comprehend the costs.
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You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
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Don't hide in the dark and let someone else make your boss look like a rock star.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.
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Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
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Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
