Michael Douglas Quotes

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

Michael Douglas

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Small
  • Day

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Real
  • Food
  • Community

• Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Children
  • Family
  • Dad

• Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Want
  • Gay
  • Cowboys

• Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Politics
  • Morality
  • Where

• As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Happened
  • Without

• Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Happy

• It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

  

  Rachel Dolezal
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Reality

• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Lying

• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • True
  • Influence

• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Feminist
  • Relationships
  • Solidarity

• Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Relationships
  • Bubbles
  • Fragile