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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
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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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When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
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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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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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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 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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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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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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The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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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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I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.
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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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You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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Virtue is not photogenic.
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