Douglas Fairbanks Quotes

The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939

Topics

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By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

Johannes Stark

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I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.

Robert Kurson

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Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Jeffrey Jones

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When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Jeanne Moreau

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We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

Stephen J. Dubner

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I hate diets and I love eating.

Tracy Anderson

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I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

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You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.

Tom Ford

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I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Rodney King

HeroHatePeopleMeFeelSometimes

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

Mike Davidson

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I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Lorrie Fair

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Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

Jay Baruchel

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