Michael Douglas Quotes

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

Michael Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.

Joe Craft

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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

John Gray

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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max Weber

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Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Robert Sternberg

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The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.

Michael Connelly

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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

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One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

Tom Perez

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I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.

Robert Webb

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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

Ron Chernow

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I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Mike Yaconelli

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I find the fans really interesting and nice, and I'll go over and say hello.

Michael Socha

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