Michael Douglas Quotes
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
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I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
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Over the longer run, advanced economy policy actions that strengthen global growth and global trade will benefit the EMEs as well.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
