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I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish? The mother answered, I don't want he should forget he's a Jew.
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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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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
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Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
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Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.
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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
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I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.
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The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
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