Michael Douglas Quotes

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

Michael Douglas

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1944

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jerome K. Jerome

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I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

Melanie Roach

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I would not be allowed to be in the web series without playing 'Halo.' I'm awful, by the way. I'm much better at the live action version.

Anna Popplewell

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I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.

Michael Easton

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I watch what I eat and drink.

Amber Heard

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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

Alvin E. Roth

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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Lou Holtz

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In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars.

Dianne Feinstein

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I love stories about underdogs.

Dawn Steel

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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

Deborah Harkness

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Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.

Wylie Dufresne

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Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

Phil Collins

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