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The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Soldier
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Amsterdam (city)
New York
Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
Wherever
Wine
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Home
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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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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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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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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
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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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The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
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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've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.
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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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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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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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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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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
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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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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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