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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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Amsterdam (city)
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Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.
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Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.
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I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.
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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.
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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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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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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.
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My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
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