Michael Douglas Quotes
There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
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A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.
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There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
