Kirk Douglas Quotes

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• In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

  Kirk Douglas

  Order, Brave, Failing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

  Kirk Douglas

  Giving, Havens

  "Jeffrey Katzenberg picks up a humanitarian honor" by Todd Longwell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 17, 2008.

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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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

  Kirk Douglas

  Inspiration, Helping Others, Voice

  Kirk Douglas (2001). “Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• The learning process continues until the day you die.

  Kirk Douglas

  Process, Learning Process, Dies

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 2001.

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• My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

  Kirk Douglas

  Kids, Poor, Advantage

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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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Block, Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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• Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

  Kirk Douglas

  Ties, Sometimes

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  Optimism, What If, Speech

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Looks, Faces, Firsts

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• All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

  Kirk Douglas

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

  Kirk Douglas

  Loner, Clear, Guts

  "Fictional chaarcter: Jack Burns". "Lonely Are the Brave", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Virtue is not photogenic.

  Kirk Douglas

  Photography, Virtue, Photogenic

  Kirk Douglas (2000). “Climbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

  Kirk Douglas

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

  Kirk Douglas

  Thinking, America, Parent

  "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

  Kirk Douglas

  Philosophy, Adversity, Deals

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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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Kids, Night

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• If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

  Kirk Douglas

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

  Kirk Douglas

  Loner, Want, Way

  "Fictional character: Jack Burns". "Lonely Are the Brave", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

  Kirk Douglas

  Years, Names, Jail

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

  Kirk Douglas

  Emotional, Differences, People

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• You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

  Kirk Douglas

  Giving

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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

  Boss, Needs, Actors

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