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Marlene Dietrich Inspirational Quotes (55)

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Where have all the flowers gone
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On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.
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You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
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...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.
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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
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I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
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Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
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I never ever took my career seriously.
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.
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To lose your prejudices you must travel.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
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H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
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Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
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Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.
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Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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