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Kirk Douglas Quotes

It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Beautiful Tough Bad Movies

It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.

Funny Fun Nice Playing Guy Being

In a financial crisis, only the Fed, as the lender of last resort, might stand between our economy and financial catastrophe. We must leave the Fed with the flexibility to provide liquidity in order to stop a financial panic.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Financial Stand Stop Crisis Economy

There's a show in America where all these people compete with ferrets, and they don't even do anything. They basically just hold them up, and if they don't bite you, they might win.

People Win America You Up Anything

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Martin Scorsese

Good Alone Past World Think Help

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

Music Try Take Twist Foundations

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

Management Think Financial End Will

String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

Theory Extra Dimensions Only String

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

Work I Am Me Think Sexy Lady

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

God Pain Hell Talking Go Just

I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.

Good Girl God Myself Mind Thinking

As a decision maker, you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. As the CEO, however, you cannot rely solely on this information. You also need to 'dip' down into your organization and learn directly from employees at all levels and virtually all skill sets.

Decision People Organization Learn

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

Purpose Way Everyone Sense Some

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