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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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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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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Lipgloss is my calling!
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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 have marched in many a battle host,' Adaon answered quietly, 'but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.'
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
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I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
