Michael Douglas Quotes
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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I love challenges.
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Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
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Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
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It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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Stand by those who stand by you.
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The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
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I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
