Michael Douglas Quotes
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
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'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.
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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
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The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
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Show me a first-generation fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.
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Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
