Michael Douglas Quotes
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.
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You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.
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I love it when someone that inspires me is not only good because of what they inspire me for, but also because they're just an amazing person.
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The wealthiest man among us is the best
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Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.
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If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
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After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.
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Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
