Kirk Douglas Quotes

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

Kirk Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodReligionCaringPeopleMeHelp

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.

Michael Hayden

LawThinkYouMoralAuthorityOut

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Soren Kierkegaard

ManImperfectionDesireHumanOnly

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Tom Robbins

I AmHappyYouKnowCheerfulAm

In my family, I'm short.

Rosario Dawson

FamilyShort

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

Rose Leslie

HomeHopeMyselfIndependenceFeel

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Douglas Coupland

CreativeRecognitionPlacesBecome

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Donovan Bailey

BrainDoingExerciseLongBodyKind

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

Christine Lagarde

WomenYouEconomistsLikeFieldBit

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

Brent Spiner

BusinessThinkYouKnowActorKid

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

Petina Gappah

LifeMyselfMeLawyerMy LifeEarly

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

Tyler Perry

LifeExperienceGoWriteThrough

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

Marlin Stutzman

GovernmentPeopleStartFaceSize

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