Michael Douglas Quotes

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Michael Douglas

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• Hollywood
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• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Value
  • Pleasure

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Money

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all the troops back. Third, I'd raise the minimum wage to a good, nice amount so people get paid.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • True
  • Know
  • Uniform

• I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Here
  • Perform
  • Autographs

• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Service
  • Software
  • Data

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Bad
  • Advice

• It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Age
  • Teenager

• I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Up
  • Listening

• I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Life
  • Important
  • History

• But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Different
  • Country
  • Decision

• I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Hollywood