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Kirk Douglas Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1916

Topics

Family Mother Food Door Night Poor

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Water Food Small Clothing Relief

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Universe Trying Find Be Prepared

PayPal came within an inch of being shut down by regulators when they started. The feds seizing the Dwolla account and stealing the money that is owned by Mt. Gox customers is more proof that Bitcoin is the superior payment system.

Money Down More Within System Inch

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

Michel Houellebecq

Mistake Think Know Why Somewhere Am

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.

God Wisdom Simple Parents Society

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Michael Mandelbaum

American America Will Empire Because

I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

Good Soul Yourself Fun Rest Someone

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Christine Keeler

Alone Night Holiday Never Single Up

They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'

Claudio Ranieri

People Me Go Say People Say Call

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Best Fire Effort Building You Get

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

Music I Am Identity People Listening

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

William Wells Brown

Change Mother Time Thought Name Boy

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