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- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a…
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous…
- He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand…
- Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all.…
- Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
- They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work…
- Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit…
- There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and…
- Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
- I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the…
- My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate…
- People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work....
- Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over…
- I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the…
- I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake,…
- All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls…
- What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle