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The learning process continues until the day you die.

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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Soldier
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Amsterdam (city)
New York
Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
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Dies

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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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Hail to the Chief was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. I've been in this office for six years, and yet every time I hear that music, I turn around wondering who they're playing it for.
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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
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When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
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The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
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I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.
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The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
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The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.
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