Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quotes

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000

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I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Jessica Sanchez

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It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

Meghan Daum

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I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.

Robert Reich

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Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Stacy Schiff

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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Steve Martin

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Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Matisyahu

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Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

Mo Ibrahim

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Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

Donnie Yen

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

Annie Besant

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I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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